Z43.3
Encounter for attention to colostomy
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 3 never code together
Instructional notes 9
Z43code
Includes
- 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
Z40-Z53block
Inclusion terms
- 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 stateZ40-Z53
Z00-Z99chapter
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:Z00-Z99A00-Y89
- (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.
Index entries leading here 3
Alongside this code 9 same parent — Z43
Z43.0 Encounter for attention to tracheostomy Z43.1 Encounter for attention to gastrostomy Z43.2 Encounter for attention to ileostomy Z43.4 Encounter for attn to oth artif openings of digestive tract Z43.5 Encounter for attention to cystostomy Z43.6 Encounter for attn to oth artif 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
Additional references
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