ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z77-Z99 › Z93 Artificial opening status › Z93.9
Artificial opening status, 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 Artificial opening status, 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 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.
- Postsurgery status
- Artificial > opening status
- Status > artificial opening
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Z93.6 | Other artificial openings of urinary tract status | Valid |
| Z93.8 | Other artificial opening status | Valid |