ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z77-Z99 › Z98.4 Cataract extraction status › Z98.49
Cataract extraction status, unspecified eye
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 Cataract extraction status, unspecified eye
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.
- Stump
- Missing
- Cataracta
- Amputation
- Disarticulation
- Intumescence, lens
- Postsurgery status
- Loss > organ or part
- Absence > toe > with foot
- Opacity, opacities > lens
- Disorder > lens > cataract
- Degeneration, degenerative > lens
- Cataract > extraction status
- Status > cataract extraction
- Absence > lens > post cataract extraction
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z98.41 | Cataract extraction status, right eye | Valid |
| Z98.42 | Cataract extraction status, left eye | Valid |