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Z93.6

Other artificial openings of urinary tract status

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 Other artificial openings of urinary tract status

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 Z93 Artificial opening status

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • artificial openings requiring attention or management (Z43.-)
  • complications of external stoma (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-)

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
Z93.0 Tracheostomy status Valid
Z93.1 Gastrostomy status Valid
Z93.2 Ileostomy status Valid
Z93.3 Colostomy status Valid
Z93.4 Other artificial openings of gastrointestinal tract status Valid
Z93.5 Cystostomy status Not billable
Z93.8 Other artificial opening status Valid
Z93.9 Artificial opening status, unspecified Valid