Z43.- Encounter for attention to artificial openings

Includes

  • Closure of artificial openings
  • Passage of sounds or bougies through artificial openings
  • Reforming artificial openings
  • Removal of catheter from artificial openings
  • Toilet or cleansing of artificial openings

Excludes

  • Fitting and adjustment of prosthetic and other devices (Z44-Z46)
  • Complications of external stoma (J95.0–K94.–N99.5-)

Diagnosis Codes
11
  • Z43
    		•  Encounter for attention to artificial openings
    • Z43.0
    		 Encounter for attention to tracheostomy
    • Z43.1
    		 Encounter for attention to gastrostomy
    • Z43.2
    		 Encounter for attention to ileostomy
    • Z43.3
    		 Encounter for attention to colostomy
    • Z43.4
    		 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings of digestive tract
    • Z43.5
    		 Encounter for attention to cystostomy
    • Z43.6
    		 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings of urinary tract
    • Z43.7
    		 Encounter for attention to artificial vagina
    • Z43.8
    		 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings
    • Z43.9
    		 Encounter for attention to unspecified artificial opening
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