Z43Encounter for attention to artificial openings
ICD-10-CM category (non-billable header) code — part of Encounters for other specific health care (Z40-Z53)
Coding Notes
Includes
- closure of artificial openings
- passage of sounds or bougies through artificial openings
- reforming artificial openings
- removal of catheter from artificial openings
- toilet or cleansing of artificial openings
Excludes1 (never code both together)
- complications of external stoma (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-)
Excludes2 (not part of this condition — may code both)
- fitting and adjustment of prosthetic and other devices (Z44-Z46)
Subcategories (10)
- Z43.0 Encounter for attention to tracheostomy
- Z43.1 Encounter for attention to gastrostomy
- Z43.2 Encounter for attention to ileostomy
- Z43.3 Encounter for attention to colostomy
- Z43.4 Encounter for attn to oth artif openings of digestive tract
- Z43.5 Encounter for attention to cystostomy
- Z43.6 Encounter for attn to oth artif openings of urinary tract
- Z43.7 Encounter for attention to artificial vagina
- Z43.8 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings
- Z43.9 Encounter for attention to unspecified artificial opening