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Z98.4

Cataract extraction status

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • Z98.41 Cataract extraction status, right eye
  • Z98.42 Cataract extraction status, left eye
  • Z98.49 Cataract extraction status, unspecified eye

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Cataract extraction 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 Z98 Other postprocedural states

Excludes2 - not included here

  • aftercare (Z43-Z49, Z51)
  • follow-up medical care (Z08-Z09)
  • Fontan related circulation (I27.84-)
  • postprocedural complication - see Alphabetical Index

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
Z98.0 Intestinal bypass and anastomosis status Valid
Z98.1 Arthrodesis status Valid
Z98.2 Presence of cerebrospinal fluid drainage device Valid
Z98.3 Post therapeutic collapse of lung status Valid
Z98.5 Sterilization status Not billable
Z98.6 Angioplasty status Not billable
Z98.8 Other specified postprocedural states Not billable