Version 2024

2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z48.2

Encounter for aftercare following organ transplant

ICD-10-CM Code:
Z48.2
ICD-10 Code for:
Encounter for aftercare following organ transplant
Is Billable?
Not Valid for Submission
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Code Classification

  • Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
    (Z00–Z99)
    • Encounters for other specific health care
      (Z40-Z53)
      • Encounter for other postprocedural aftercare
        (Z48)

Z48.2 is a non-specific and non-billable diagnosis code code, consider using a code with a higher level of specificity for a diagnosis of encounter for aftercare following organ transplant. The code is not specific and is NOT valid for the year 2024 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. Category or Header define the heading of a category of codes that may be further subdivided by the use of 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th characters.

Specific Coding Applicable to Encounter for aftercare following organ transplant

Non-specific codes like Z48.2 require more digits to indicate the appropriate level of specificity. Consider using any of the following ICD-10-CM codes with a higher level of specificity when coding for encounter for aftercare following organ transplant:

  • Use Z48.21 for Encounter for aftercare following heart transplant - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z48.22 for Encounter for aftercare following kidney transplant - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z48.23 for Encounter for aftercare following liver transplant - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z48.24 for Encounter for aftercare following lung transplant - BILLABLE CODE

  • Z48.28 for Encounter for aftercare following multiple organ transplant - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z48.280 for Encounter for aftercare following heart-lung transplant - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z48.288 for Encounter for aftercare following multiple organ transplant - BILLABLE CODE

  • Z48.29 for Encounter for aftercare following other organ transplant - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z48.290 for Encounter for aftercare following bone marrow transplant - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z48.298 for Encounter for aftercare following other organ transplant - BILLABLE CODE

Patient Education


Organ Transplantation

You may need an organ transplant if one of your organs has failed. This can happen because of illness or injury. When you have an organ transplant, doctors remove an organ from another person and place it in your body. The organ may come from a living donor or a donor who has died.

The organs that can be transplanted include:

  • Heart
  • Intestine
  • Kidney
  • Liver
  • Lung
  • Pancreas

You often have to wait a long time for an organ transplant. Doctors must match donors to recipients to reduce the risk of transplant rejection. Rejection happens when your immune system attacks the new organ. If you have a transplant, you must take drugs the rest of your life to help keep your body from rejecting the new organ.


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Code History

  • FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
  • FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
  • FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
  • FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
  • FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
  • FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
  • FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
  • FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
  • FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.