Z16.34

Z16.34: Resistance to antimycobacterial drug(s)

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Z16.34 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for resistance to antimycobacterial drug(s). It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Resistance to tuberculostatics

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z16.34

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Z16.3: Resistance to other antimicrobial drugs

resistance to antibiotics (Z16.1-, Z16.2-)

Written on Z16: Resistance to antimicrobial drugs

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (A49.02)
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (J15.212)
Sepsis due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (A41.02)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead Z16.34

2 child codes. Green means billable.