Encounter for observation for suspected ingested foreign body ruled out
Billable / specificPOA exempt
Z03.821 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
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.-) (from Z03.82)
- retained foreign body in eyelid (H02.81) (from Z03.82)
- residual foreign body in soft tissue (M79.5) (from Z03.82)
- 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: (from Z03.82)
- foreign body in alimentary tract (T18) (from Z03.82)
- foreign body in ear (T16) (from Z03.82)
- foreign body on external eye (T15) (from Z03.82)
- foreign body in respiratory tract (T17) (from Z03.82)
- examinations related to pregnancy and reproduction (Z30-Z36, Z39.-) (from Z03)
Also known as
- Observation, suspected, ruled out, foreign body, ingested
Parent code
- Z03.82Encounter for observation for suspected foreign body ruled outHeader