Z98.85

Z98.85: Transplanted organ removal status

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z98.85 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for transplanted organ removal status. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Z98.85 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

encounter for removal of transplanted organ -code to complication of transplanted organ (T86.-)

Inclusion terms

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

Transplanted organ previously removed due to complication, failure, rejection or infection

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z98.85

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on Z98: Other postprocedural states

aftercare (Z43-Z49, Z51)
follow-up medical care (Z08-Z09)
Fontan related circulation (I27.84-)
postprocedural complication - see Alphabetical Index

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Status›transplant›organ removed
Transplant›organ›removal status

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z98.8