Z94.9 — Transplanted organ and tissue status, unspecified
Z94.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for transplanted organ and tissue status, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Z94.9 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
Z94.9 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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- A57689Billing and Coding: Lab: Flow Cytometry
How Z94.9 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 Z94.9.
- Transplant(ed) (status)
- Transplant›organ(failure) (infection) (rejection)
- Transplant›tissue
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z94. If Z94.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Z94.9
- Is Z94.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z94.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z94.9 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).