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Z43 ICD-10-CA category: Attention to artificial openings

Z43 isn’t a code on its own. Choose one of the 10 codes beneath it, the one the documentation supports.

Official description

Z43

Attention to artificial openings

ICD-10-CA · Canada

Codes in Z43

Z43 isn’t a code on its own. Open the code that matches what the note documents.

Z43.0Attention to tracheostomyZ43.1Attention to gastrostomyZ43.2Attention to ileostomyZ43.3Attention to colostomyZ43.4Attention to other artificial openings of digestive tractZ43.5Attention to cystostomyZ43.6Attention to other artificial openings of urinary tractZ43.7Attention to artificial vaginaZ43.8Attention to other artificial openingsZ43.9Attention to unspecified artificial opening

Notes for Z43

As CIHI prints them, with any note Z43 takes from the headings above it.

Includes

  • Closurepassage of sounds or bougiesreformingremoval of cathetertakedown stomatoilet or cleansing

Excludes

Conditions classified elsewhere.

Note

  • Categories (Z40-Z54) are intended for use to indicate a reason for care. They may be used for patients who have already been treated for a disease or injury, but who are receiving follow-up or prophylactic care, convalescent care, or care to consolidate the treatment, to deal with residual states, to ensure that the condition has not recurred, or to prevent recurrence.From Z40-Z54 Persons encountering health services for specific procedures and health care
  • This chapter should not be used for international comparison or for primary mortality coding.Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as "diagnoses" or "problems". This can arise in two main ways:(a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.(b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury. Such factors may be elicited during population surveys, when the person may or may not be currently sick, or be recorded as an additional factor to be borne in mind when the person is receiving care for some illness or injury.From Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)

Where Z43 sits

  1. 1ChapterChapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
  2. 2Block Z40-Z54Persons encountering health services for specific procedures and health care
  3. 3Category Z43Attention to artificial openings

Source and release

Data release
ICD-10-CA · FY 2026–2027
Effective date
Apr 1, 2026
Publisher
CIHI

This page is built from the ICD-10-CA catalog that Vero Codes reads when it suggests codes: Canadian Institute for Health Information’s FY 2026–2027 release, imported from the publisher’s file and checked against it. The description, notes and structured data come from the same record.

See Z43 in the CIHI source

Frequently asked questions

Is Z43 a valid ICD-10-CA code?

No. Z43 (Attention to artificial openings) is a category heading in CIHI’s ICD-10-CA FY 2026–2027 release. It holds 10 codes; record the one the documentation supports.

Where is Z43 in ICD-10-CA?

Z43 sits under Z40-Z54 Persons encountering health services for specific procedures and health care, within Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99).

What coding notes apply to Z43?

ICD-10-CA lists Includes, Excludes, Note notes for Z43, including those from the headings it sits under. They are listed on this page with where each one comes from.

Which ICD-10-CA release does this page use?

It uses CIHI’s FY 2026–2027 release, in effect from Apr 1, 2026 to Mar 31, 2027. It is a reference: confirm the code against the current list and the payer’s rules before you submit it.

Codes beside Z43

Z40Prophylactic surgeryZ41Procedures for purposes other than remedying health stateZ42Follow-up care involving plastic surgeryZ44Fitting and adjustment of external prosthetic deviceZ45Adjustment and management of implanted deviceZ46Fitting and adjustment of other devicesZ47Other orthopaedic follow-up careZ48Other surgical follow-up careZ49Care involving dialysisZ50Care involving use of rehabilitation proceduresZ51Other medical careZ52Donors of organs and tissuesZ53Persons encountering health services for specific procedures, not carried outZ54Convalescence