Z76.82 — Awaiting organ transplant status
Z76.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for awaiting organ transplant status. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Patient waiting for organ availability
Risk adjustment
Z76.82 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
Z76.82 is named in 25 Medicare coverage policies — 25 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A55717Billing and Coding: Lab: Flow Cytometry
- A56391Billing and Coding: Implantable Automatic Defibrillators
- A56391Billing and Coding: Implantable Automatic Defibrillators
- A56423Billing and Coding: Cardiology Non-emergent Outpatient Stress Testing
How Z76.82 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to Z76.82.
- Status›awaiting organ transplant
- Transplant›awaiting organ
- Transplant›candidate
- Waiting list, person on›for organ transplant
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z76.8. If Z76.82 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Z76.82
- Is Z76.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z76.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z76.82 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z69-Z76).