Cataract extraction status
Non-billable header
Z98.4 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from Z98)
- 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.
- aphakia (H27.0)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code to identify intraocular lens implant status (Z96.1)
Code also
An additional code may be needed.
Also known as
- Absence, lens, post cataract extraction
- Cataract, extraction status
- Status, cataract extraction
Parent code
- Z98Other postprocedural statesHeader
More specific codes Z98.4
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