ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z77-Z99 › Z89.2 Acquired absence of upper limb above wrist › Z89.23

Z89.23

Acquired absence of shoulder

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • Z89.231 Acquired absence of right shoulder
  • Z89.232 Acquired absence of left shoulder
  • Z89.239 Acquired absence of unspecified shoulder

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Acquired absence of shoulder

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 Z89 Acquired absence of limb

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • acquired deformities of limbs (M20-M21)
  • congenital absence of limbs (Q71-Q73)

Includes

  • amputation status
  • postprocedural loss of limb
  • post-traumatic loss of limb

Inherited from the Z77-Z99 section Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)

Code also

  • any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Z89.20 Acquired absence of upper limb, unspecified level Not billable
Z89.21 Acquired absence of upper limb below elbow Not billable
Z89.22 Acquired absence of upper limb above elbow Not billable