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Z89.232

Acquired absence of left shoulder

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Acquired absence of left 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
Z89.231 Acquired absence of right shoulder Valid
Z89.239 Acquired absence of unspecified shoulder Valid