Z48.0
Z48.0: Encounter for attention to dressings, sutures and drains
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Z48.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for encounter for attention to dressings, sutures and drains. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- encounter for planned postprocedural wound closure (Z48.1)
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z48.0
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z48.0
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with Z48.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- Z48.1Encounter for planned postprocedural wound closure
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 Z48.0
4 child codes. Green means billable.