Z93.3
Colostomy status
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 2 never code together
Instructional notes 4
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 8 same parent — Z93
Z93.0 Tracheostomy status Z93.1 Gastrostomy status Z93.2 Ileostomy status Z93.4 Other artificial openings of gastrointestinal tract status Z93.5 Cystostomy status category Z93.6 Other artificial openings of urinary tract status Z93.8 Other artificial opening status Z93.9 Artificial opening status, unspecified
Additional references
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