Encounter for adjustment or removal of breast implant
Non-billable header
Z45.81 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Encounter for elective implant exchange (different material) (different size)
- Encounter for removal of tissue expander with or without synchronous insertion of permanent implant
Includes (from Z45)
- removal or replacement of implanted device
- 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.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Also known as
- Encounter for elective implant exchange (different material) (different size)
- Encounter for removal of tissue expander with or without synchronous insertion of permanent implant
- Admission, adjustment, breast, implant
- Encounter, adjustment and management, breast implant
- Encounter, breast implant exchange
- Encounter, removal, breast implant
- Encounter, removal, breast implant, tissue expander
- Removal, breast implant
Parent code
- Z45.8Encounter for adjustment and management of other implanted devicesHeader