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ICD-10-CM code · FY2027

Z93.3 Colostomy status

BillableValid for claims as a specific diagnosis code

About Z93.3

Code
Z93.3
Billable
Yes
Short description
Colostomy status
Category
Z93 Artificial opening status
Block
Z77-Z99 Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status
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 Z93.3

No notes of its own; the notes below apply from the codes above it.

Also applies, from Z93 Artificial opening status

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

  • artificial openings requiring attention or management (Z43.-)
  • complications of external stoma (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-)
Block Z77-Z99 notes (apply to every code in it)

Code also Another code may be needed as well; the order depends on the encounter.

  • any follow-up examination (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.

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