ICD-10-CM · Chapter 21 · Z00–Z99
Z48.280
Encounter for aftercare following heart-lung transplant
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Quick facts
- Code
- Z48.280
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 21 — Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
- Category
- Z48 — Encounter for other postprocedural aftercare
- Specificity
- 6 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM Z48.280 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of encounter for aftercare following heart-lung transplant. Coders assign it when the chart documentation supports this level of detail, always matching to the most specific code available and verifying against the chapter-specific guidelines published annually by NCHS/CMS.
Related codes in Z48
- Z48Encounter for other postprocedural aftercare
- Z48.0Encounter for attention to dressings, sutures and drains
- Z48.00Encounter for change or removal of nonsurgical wound dressing
- Z48.01Encounter for change or removal of surgical wound dressing
- Z48.02Encounter for removal of sutures
- Z48.03Encounter for change or removal of drains
- Z48.1Encounter for planned postprocedural wound closure
- Z48.2Encounter for aftercare following organ transplant
- Z48.21Encounter for aftercare following heart transplant
- Z48.22Encounter for aftercare following kidney transplant
- Z48.23Encounter for aftercare following liver transplant
- Z48.24Encounter for aftercare following lung transplant
- Z48.28Encounter for aftercare following multiple organ transplant
- Z48.288Encounter for aftercare following multiple organ transplant
- Z48.29Encounter for aftercare following other organ transplant
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