Z43.4 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings of digestive tract
Instructional Notes:
Z43.4 Description: Encounter for attention to other artificial openings of digestive tract ↓
Z43 Description: Encounter for attention to artificial openings Exclude1:
complications of external stoma (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-)
Exclude2:
fitting and adjustment of prosthetic and other devices (Z44-Z46)
Include:
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
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Z40-Z53 Description: Encounters for other specific health care (Z40-Z53) Exclude2:
follow-up examination for medical surveillance after treatment (Z08-Z09)
Inclusion Term:
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
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Z00-Z99 Description: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services Notes:
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.