Z89.12

Acquired absence of wrist

Non-billable header

Z89.12 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Disarticulation at wrist

Includes (from Z89)

  • amputation status
  • postprocedural loss of limb
  • post-traumatic loss of limb
  • 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.

  • acquired deformities of limbs (M20-M21) (from Z89)
  • congenital absence of limbs (Q71-Q73) (from Z89)

Code also

An additional code may be needed.

  • any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09) (from Z89)

Also known as

  • Disarticulation at wrist
  • Absence, wrist

Parent code

  • Z89.1Acquired absence of hand and wristHeader

More specific codes Z89.12

  • Z89.121Acquired absence of right wristBillable
  • Z89.122Acquired absence of left wristBillable
  • Z89.129Acquired absence of unspecified wristBillable

Related codes

  • Z89.11Acquired absence of handHeader

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