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ICD-10-CM code · FY2027

Z47 Orthopedic aftercare

Header codeNot billable: use one of the 8 billable codes below

About Z47

Code
Z47
Billable
No, header
Short description
Orthopedic aftercare
Block
Z40-Z53 Encounters for other specific health care
Chapter
21 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Code set
FY2027, October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027

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Coding notes for Z47

Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).

  • aftercare for healing fracture-code to fracture with 7th character D
Block Z40-Z53 notes (apply to every code in it)

Applicable to Other names for conditions reported with this code.

  • 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

Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.

  • follow-up examination for medical surveillance after treatment (Z08-Z09)
Chapter 21 notes (apply to every code in it)

Note

  • 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.

Codes under Z47 10

Other categories in Z40-Z53

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