Z96.29
Presence of other otological and audiological implants
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 2 never code together
Instructional notes 7
Z96.29code
Inclusion terms
- Presence of bone-conduction hearing device
- Presence of eustachian tube stent
- Stapes replacement
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 2
- Presence (of)
- audiological implant (functional) Z96.29
- bone
- conduction hearing device Z96.29
- ear implant Z96.20
- specified type NEC Z96.29
- implanted device (artificial) (functional) (prosthetic) Z96.9
- eustachian tube stent or device (functional) Z96.29
- otological implant (functional) Z96.29
- stapes implant (functional) Z96.29
- Replacement by artificial or mechanical device or prosthesis of
Alongside this code 3 same parent — Z96.2
Additional references
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