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Z48.0

Encounter for attention to dressings, sutures and drains

Non-billableCategory

Code Hierarchy

Z48Z48.0

Chapter: 21. Factors influencing health status and contact with health services

Section: Z40-Z53 - Encounters for other specific health care

Coding Guidelines

Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)

These codes should never be used together with Z48.0

  • Z48.1 - encounter for planned postprocedural wound closure (Z48.1)

Specific Codes (4)

Z48.00Billable

Encounter for change or removal of nonsurgical wound dressing

Z48.01Billable

Encounter for change or removal of surgical wound dressing

Z48.02Billable

Encounter for removal of sutures

Z48.03Billable

Encounter for change or removal of drains

Related Codes

Z48.1Billable

Encounter for planned postprocedural wound closure

Z48.2Category

Encounter for aftercare following organ transplant

Z48.3Billable

Aftercare following surgery for neoplasm

Z48.8Category

Encounter for other specified postprocedural aftercare

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