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Z96.643

Presence of artificial hip joint, bilateral

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 Presence of artificial hip joint, bilateral

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 Z96 Presence of other functional implants

Excludes2 - not included here

  • complications of internal prosthetic devices, implants and grafts (T82-T85)
  • fitting and adjustment of prosthetic and other devices (Z44-Z46)

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
Z96.641 Presence of right artificial hip joint Valid
Z96.642 Presence of left artificial hip joint Valid
Z96.649 Presence of unspecified artificial hip joint Valid