ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z77-Z99 › Z89 Acquired absence of limb › Z89.9
Acquired absence of limb, unspecified
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 Acquired absence of limb, unspecified
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.
- Stump
- Missing
- Amputation
- Absence > limb
- Disarticulation
- Loss > organ or part
- Absence > toe > with foot
- Amputee
- Absence > extremity
- Amputation > stump > healed or old NOS
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z89.0 | Acquired absence of thumb and other finger(s) | Not billable |
| Z89.1 | Acquired absence of hand and wrist | Not billable |
| Z89.2 | Acquired absence of upper limb above wrist | Not billable |
| Z89.4 | Acquired absence of toe(s), foot, and ankle | Not billable |
| Z89.5 | Acquired absence of leg below knee | Not billable |
| Z89.6 | Acquired absence of leg above knee | Not billable |