Z98.89
Other specified postprocedural states
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 4 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.
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No alphabetic index entry points at this code.
Alongside this code 7 same parent — Z98.8
Z98.81 Dental procedure status category Z98.82 Breast implant status Z98.83 Filtering (vitreous) bleb after glaucoma surgery status Z98.84 Bariatric surgery status Z98.85 Transplanted organ removal status Z98.86 Personal history of breast implant removal Z98.87 Personal history of in utero procedure category
Subordinate codes 2
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