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Z43.4

Encounter for attention to other artificial openings of digestive tract

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Hierarchy

  • Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
    • Z40-Z53 Encounters for other specific health care (Z40-Z53)
      • Z43 Encounter for attention to artificial openings
        • Z43.0 Encounter for attention to tracheostomy
        • Z43.1 Encounter for attention to gastrostomy
        • Z43.2 Encounter for attention to ileostomy
        • Z43.3 Encounter for attention to colostomy
        • Z43.4 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings of digestive tract
        • Z43.5 Encounter for attention to cystostomy
        • Z43.6 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings of urinary tract
        • Z43.7 Encounter for attention to artificial vagina
        • Z43.8 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings
        • Z43.9 Encounter for attention to unspecified artificial opening

Notes

Z00-Z99

  • Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
  • (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
  • (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.

Inclusion Terms

Z40-Z53

  • Categories Z40-Z53 are intended for use to indicate a reason for care. They may be used for patients who have already been treated for a disease or injury, but who are receiving aftercare or prophylactic care, or care to consolidate the treatment, or to deal with a residual state

Includes

Z43

  • closure of artificial openings
  • passage of sounds or bougies through artificial openings
  • reforming artificial openings
  • removal of catheter from artificial openings
  • toilet or cleansing of artificial openings

Excludes 1

Z43

  • complications of external stoma (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-)
    • J95.0 Tracheostomy complications
    • K94 Complications of artificial openings of the digestive system
    • N99.5 Complications of stoma of urinary tract

Excludes 2

Z43

  • fitting and adjustment of prosthetic and other devices (Z44-Z46)

Z40-Z53

  • follow-up examination for medical surveillance after treatment (Z08-Z09)