Z95.9 — Presence of cardiac and vascular implant and graft, unspecified
Z95.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for presence of cardiac and vascular implant and graft, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Z95.9 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
Z95.9 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.
- A56602Billing and Coding: Cardiac Rhythm Device Evaluation
How Z95.9 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 Z95.9.
- Presence›intravascular implant NEC(functional) (prosthetic)
- Presence›vascular implant or device
- Presence›cardiac›implant or graft
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z95. If Z95.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Z95.0Presence of cardiac pacemaker
- Z95.1Presence of aortocoronary bypass graft
- Z95.2Presence of prosthetic heart valve
- Z95.3Presence of xenogenic heart valve
- Z95.4Presence of other heart-valve replacement
- Z95.5Presence of coronary angioplasty implant and graft
- Z95.8Presence of other cardiac and vascular implants and grafts
Questions about Z95.9
- Is Z95.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z95.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z95.9 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).