Z93.6

Other artificial openings of urinary tract status

Billable / specificHCC V28 463POA exempt

Z93.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Nephrostomy status
  • Ureterostomy status
  • Urethrostomy status

Includes (from Z93)

  • 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.

  • artificial openings requiring attention or management (Z43.-) (from Z93)
  • complications of external stoma (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-) (from Z93)

Code also

An additional code may be needed.

  • any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09) (from Z93)

Also known as

  • Nephrostomy status
  • Ureterostomy status
  • Urethrostomy status
  • Artificial, opening status, nephrostomy
  • Artificial, opening status, ureterostomy
  • Artificial, opening status, urethrostomy
  • Artificial, opening status, urinary tract NEC
  • Nephrostomy, status
  • Status, artificial opening, urinary tract
  • Status, nephrostomy
  • Status, ureterostomy
  • Status, urethrostomy
  • Ureterostomy, status
  • Urethrostomy, status

Parent code

  • Z93Artificial opening statusHeader

Related codes

  • Z93.0Tracheostomy statusBillable
  • Z93.1Gastrostomy statusBillable
  • Z93.2Ileostomy statusBillable
  • Z93.3Colostomy statusBillable
  • Z93.4Other artificial openings of gastrointestinal tract statusBillable
  • Z93.5Cystostomy statusHeader
  • Z93.8Other artificial opening statusBillable
  • Z93.9Artificial opening status, unspecifiedBillable

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