Z96.629

Presence of unspecified artificial elbow joint

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

This is the unspecified option. 2 more specific codes sit alongside it. Worth checking whether the documentation supports one of them.

Exclusions 2 never code together

Z96code

Excludes2

complications of internal prosthetic devices, implants and grafts (T82-T85)T82-T85
fitting and adjustment of prosthetic and other devices (Z44-Z46)Z44-Z46

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 4

Code also

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-Z99 A00-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 1

Presence (of)
- implanted device (artificial) (functional) (prosthetic) Z96.9
  - joint Z96.60
    - elbow Z96.62
- elbow-joint implant (functional) (prosthesis) Z96.62

Alongside this code 2 same parent — Z96.62

Additional references

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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.

Maps to no condition category in any loaded model.

Presence is a property of the code. Untick a model to hide it everywhere.

Present FY2024–FY2027.