Z03.82

Encounter for observation for suspected foreign body ruled out

Non-billable header

Z03.82 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Inclusion terms

Includes (from Z03)

  • Note: 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:
  • Note: (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.
  • Note: (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.
  • Note: Nonspecific abnormal findings disclosed at the time of these examinations are classified to categories R70-R94.

Excludes1

Not coded here — never report together with this code.

  • retained foreign body (Z18.-)
  • retained foreign body in eyelid (H02.81)
  • residual foreign body in soft tissue (M79.5)
  • contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (Z77.-) (from Z03)
  • encounter for observation and evaluation of newborn for suspected diseases and conditions ruled out (Z05.-) (from Z03)
  • person with feared complaint in whom no diagnosis is made (Z71.1) (from Z03)
  • signs or symptoms under study- code to signs or symptoms (from Z03)

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • confirmed foreign body ingestion or aspiration including:
  • foreign body in alimentary tract (T18)
  • foreign body in ear (T16)
  • foreign body on external eye (T15)
  • foreign body in respiratory tract (T17)
  • examinations related to pregnancy and reproduction (Z30-Z36, Z39.-) (from Z03)

Parent code

  • Z03.8Encounter for observation for other suspected diseases and conditions ruled outHeader

More specific codes Z03.82

  • Z03.821Encounter for observation for suspected ingested foreign body ruled outBillable
  • Z03.822Encounter for observation for suspected aspirated (inhaled) foreign body ruled outBillable
  • Z03.823Encounter for observation for suspected inserted (injected) foreign body ruled outBillable

Related codes

  • Z03.81Encounter for observation for suspected exposure to biological agents ruled outHeader
  • Z03.83Encounter for observation for suspected conditions related to home physiologic monitoring device ruled outBillable
  • Z03.89Encounter for observation for other suspected diseases and conditions ruled outBillable

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