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Z93.8

Z93.8: Other artificial opening status

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z93.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other artificial opening status. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Z93.8 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z93.8

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Z93: Artificial opening status

  • artificial openings requiring attention or management (Z43.-)
  • complications of external stoma (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-)

Risk adjustment

Z93.8 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:

  • HCC 463 Artificial Openings for Feeding or Elimination0.673 RAF

Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score. Look up the whole chart to see which of its HCCs the hierarchy would zero.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Artificial›vagina status
  • Status›vagina, artificial
  • Artificial›opening status›specified site NEC
  • Artificial›opening status›vagina
  • Status›artificial opening›specified NEC
  • Status›artificial opening›vagina

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z93

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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