Encounter for fitting and adjustment of other devices
Non-billable header
Z46 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- removal or replacement of other 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.
Applicable to
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- malfunction or other complications of device - see Alphabetical Index
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Also known as
- Categories Z40-Z53 are intended for use to indicate a reason for care. They may be used for patients who have already been treated for a disease or injury, but who are receiving aftercare or prophylactic care, or care to consolidate the treatment, or to deal with a residual state
More specific codes Z46
- Z46.0Encounter for fitting and adjustment of spectacles and contact lensesBillable
- Z46.1Encounter for fitting and adjustment of hearing aidBillable
- Z46.2Encounter for fitting and adjustment of other devices related to nervous system and special sensesBillable
- Z46.3Encounter for fitting and adjustment of dental prosthetic deviceBillable
- Z46.4Encounter for fitting and adjustment of orthodontic deviceBillable
- Z46.5Encounter for fitting and adjustment of other gastrointestinal appliance and deviceHeader
- Z46.6Encounter for fitting and adjustment of urinary deviceBillable
- Z46.8Encounter for fitting and adjustment of other specified devicesHeader
- Z46.9Encounter for fitting and adjustment of unspecified deviceBillable
Related codes
- Z40Encounter for prophylactic surgeryHeader
- Z41Encounter for procedures for purposes other than remedying health stateHeader
- Z42Encounter for plastic and reconstructive surgery following medical procedure or healed injuryHeader
- Z43Encounter for attention to artificial openingsHeader
- Z44Encounter for fitting and adjustment of external prosthetic deviceHeader
- Z45Encounter for adjustment and management of implanted deviceHeader
- Z47Orthopedic aftercareHeader
- Z48Encounter for other postprocedural aftercareHeader
- Z49Encounter for care involving renal dialysisHeader
- Z51Encounter for other aftercare and medical careHeader
- Z52Donors of organs and tissuesHeader
- Z53Persons encountering health services for specific procedures and treatment, not carried outHeader