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Z92.83

Z92.83Personal history of failed moderate sedation

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z92.83 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for personal history of failed moderate sedation. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist

The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.

  • failed moderate sedation during procedure (T88.52)

Inclusion terms

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

  • Personal history of failed conscious sedation

Risk adjustment

Z92.83 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

Z92.83 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.

  • A57361Billing and Coding: Monitored Anesthesia Care

How Z92.83 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 Z92.83.

  • Failure, failedsedation during procedurehistory of
  • Historypersonalfailed conscious sedation
  • Historypersonalfailed moderate sedation

Related codes at this level

Codes that share Z92.8. If Z92.83 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about Z92.83

Is Z92.83 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
Yes. Z92.83 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does Z92.83 sit in the tabular list?
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99).
ICD-10-CMFY2026-Apr· effective April 1, 2026

Loaded directly from the CMS/NCHS ICD-10-CM public-domain release — see data sources and our editorial policy. If this page disagrees with the CMS tabular list, this page is wrong. Reference information for professional coders; not medical or billing advice.