Z45.3

Z45.3: Encounter for adjustment and management of implanted devices of the special senses

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Z45.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for encounter for adjustment and management of implanted devices of the special senses. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z45.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Z45: Encounter for adjustment and management of implanted device

malfunction or other complications of device - see Alphabetical Index

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z45.3

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on Z45: Encounter for adjustment and management of implanted device

encounter for fitting and adjustment of non-implanted device (Z46.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with Z45.3

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

Z46.1Encounter for fitting and adjustment of hearing aid

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 Z45.3

2 child codes. Green means billable.