ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z18 › Z18.8 Other specified retained foreign body › Z18.83
Retained stone or crystalline fragments
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2011 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2011 Added to the draft code set draft Retained stone or crystalline fragments
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from Z18 Retained foreign body fragments
Excludes1 - never coded here
- artificial joint prosthesis status (Z96.6-)
- foreign body accidentally left during a procedure (T81.5-)
- foreign body entering through orifice (T15-T19)
- in situ cardiac device (Z95.-)
- organ or tissue replaced by means other than transplant (Z96.-, Z97.-)
- organ or tissue replaced by transplant (Z94.-)
- personal history of retained foreign body fully removed Z87.821
- superficial foreign body (non-embedded splinter) - code to superficial foreign body, by site
Includes
- embedded fragment (status)
- embedded splinter (status)
- retained foreign body status
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Retained
- Retention
- Postsurgery status
- Foreign body > fragment
- Retention > foreign body
- Status > embedded splinter
- Status > embedded fragments
- Status > retained foreign body
- Foreign body > type of fragment
- Foreign body > retained > fragments
- Fragments, cataract, following cataract surgery > retained foreign body
- Retained > fragments > stone
- Retained > fragments > cement
- Retained > fragments > concrete
- Retained > fragments > crystalline
- Retained > foreign body fragments > stone
- Retained > foreign body fragments > cement
- Retained > foreign body fragments > concrete
- Retained > foreign body fragments > crystalline
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z18.81 | Retained glass fragments | Valid |
| Z18.89 | Other specified retained foreign body fragments | Valid |