ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z40-Z53 › Z53.2 Procedure and treatment not... › Z53.21
Procedure and treatment not carried out due to patient leaving prior to being seen by health care provider
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 2007 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Procedure and treatment not carried out due to patient leaving prior to being seen by health care provider
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 the Z40-Z53 section Encounters for other specific health care (Z40-Z53)
Excludes2 - not included here
- follow-up examination for medical surveillance after treatment (Z08-Z09)
Also known as
- Categories Z40-Z53 are intended for use to indicate a reason for care. They may be used for patients who have already been treated for a disease or injury, but who are receiving aftercare or prophylactic care, or care to consolidate the treatment, or to deal with a residual state
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.
- Refusal of > treatment > left without being seen
- Procedure > not done > because of > patient's decision > left without being seen
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z53.20 | Procedure and treatment not carried out because of patient's decision for unspecified reasons | Valid |
| Z53.29 | Procedure and treatment not carried out because of patient's decision for other reasons | Valid |