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Z76.82 ICD-10-CM Code: Awaiting organ transplant status

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
1 inclusion term

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 951 — OTHER FACTORS INFLUENCING HEALTH STATUS (MDC 23)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for Z76.82 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2026Effective: October 1, 2025

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Patient waiting for organ availability

Coder workflow for Z76.82

MedCoder structured workflow — derived from this code’s own official record

Before you code Z76.82

  1. Confirm the reason for the encounter this Z code records: the circumstance it records. Check whether the code may be reported as first-listed or principal — some Z codes are limited to one position — and do not report a history or status code for a condition documented as current. Z code categories and their reporting positions (Guidelines I.C.21.c, I.C.21.c.15).

    Guide: Z codes as principal or first-listed diagnosis →

Documentation check

The provider’s diagnostic statement
Codes are assigned from the provider’s documented diagnosis, not from clinical criteria, test values or a medication list (Guidelines I.A.19).
The reason for the encounter
Whether the code records the encounter’s purpose, a status, or a history — and whether it may be first-listed (Guidelines I.C.21.c).

Every row is derived from this code’s own record — its title, tabular notes, 7th-character family and same-category siblings — with fixed MedCoder wording; nothing is inferred about a patient. The official notes and guideline text are in the sections each row links to, and they control.

Code Overview

Awaiting organ transplant status is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (Z76.82).

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Indexed Clinical Terms (4)

Official source data — entries quoted as published, in the Index’s own lookup phrasing

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code. These are alphabetic-index entries shown as the Index writes them — lookup phrasing, not necessarily the wording of a final diagnosis.

Official Coding Guidelines

Official source data — quoted verbatim from the CMS/NCHS Official Guidelines

Official source data — quoted verbatim from the CMS/NCHS Official Guidelines

Verbatim excerpts from the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (CMS/NCHS) that govern this code.

Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)

Z74.01 Bed confinement status Z76.82 Awaiting organ transplant status Z78 Other specified health status Code Z78.1, Physical restraint status, may be used when it is documented by the provider that a patient has been put in restraints during the current encounter. Please note that this code should not be reported when it is documented by the provider that a patient is temporarily restrained during a procedure. Z79 Long- term (current) drug therapy Codes from this category indicate a patient’s continuous use of a prescribed drug (including such things as aspirin therapy) for the long-term treatment of a condition or for prophylactic use. It is not for use for patients who have addictions to drugs. This subcategory is not for use of medications for detoxification or maintenance programs to prevent withdrawal symptoms (e.g., methadone maintenance for opiate dependence). Assign the appropriate code for the drug use, abuse, or dependence instead.

Verify Before Coding

  • Principal-diagnosis restriction. The Medicare Code Editor lists this code as unacceptable as a principal diagnosis: it describes a circumstance influencing health status rather than a current illness or injury being treated. It is valid as a secondary diagnosis.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim in Claim Check.

Relationships & Classification

MedCoder structured relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2026)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2026 MS-DRG: not on the CMS CC/MCC list — as a secondary diagnosis this code does not change MS-DRG severity for that release.

Named in the grouper logic of 1 MS-DRG: DRG 951 (MDC 23).

From the CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendices B and C). Actual DRG assignment depends on the complete claim.

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):FAC025 — Other specified status (default).

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Related Codes

Principal diagnosis restriction (Medicare Code Editor)

Not acceptable as a principal diagnosis on an inpatient claim.

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (Other specified status).

Z75.2 — Other waiting period for investigation and treatment, Z75.3 — Unavailability and inaccessibility of health-care facilities, Z75.4 — Unavailability and inaccessibility of other helping agencies, Z75.5 — Holiday relief care, Z75.8 — Other problems related to medical facilities and other health care, Z75.9 — Unspecified problem related to medical facilities and other health care, Z76.3 — Healthy person accompanying sick person, Z76.4 — Other boarder to healthcare facility, Z76.5 — Malingerer [conscious simulation], Z76.81 — Expectant parent(s) prebirth pediatrician visit, Z77.010 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to arsenic, Z77.011 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to lead, Z77.012 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to uranium, Z77.018 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous metals, Z77.020 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to aromatic amines, Z77.021 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to benzene, Z77.028 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous aromatic compounds, Z77.090 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to asbestos, Z77.098 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous, chiefly nonmedicinal, chemicals, Z77.110 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to air pollution, +232 more

Same Index main term, other category

The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries files this code under the main terms “Status”, “Waiting list, person on”, “Transplant”; these codes share that main term but sit in a different category of the Tabular List.

Z28.39 — Other underimmunization status (underimmunization), Z33.1 — Pregnant state, incidental (pregnancy, incidental), Z39.0 — Encounter for care and examination of mother immediately after delivery (postpartum, care immediately after delivery), Z39.2 — Encounter for routine postpartum follow-up (postpartum), Z56.82 — Military deployment status (deployment), Z60.3 — Acculturation difficulty (social), Z66 — Do not resuscitate (do not resuscitate), Z74.01 — Bed confinement status (bed confinement), Z75.1 — Person awaiting admission to adequate facility elsewhere, Z75.2 — Other waiting period for investigation and treatment (undergoing social agency investigation), Z78.1 — Physical restraint status (physical restraint), Z87.890 — Personal history of sex reassignment (sex reassignment surgery status), Z90.02 — Acquired absence of larynx (laryngectomy), Z90.1 — Acquired absence of breast and nipple (mastectomy), Z90.2 — Acquired absence of lung [part of] (pneumonectomy), Z90.3 — Acquired absence of stomach [part of] (gastrectomy), Z90.410 — Acquired total absence of pancreas (pancreatectomy), Z90.411 — Acquired partial absence of pancreas (pancreatectomy, partial), Z90.49 — Acquired absence of other specified parts of digestive tract (colectomy), Z90.5 — Acquired absence of kidney (nephrectomy), +99 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of Z76.82 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Hierarchy

Clinical classification (CCSR)

MS-DRG Grouper

MDC crossing

  • MDC 23 — Factors Influencing Health Status and Other Contacts with Health Services[MDC crossing]: “Factors Influencing Health Status and Other Contacts with Health Services — the grouper's crossing between diagnoses and procedures: a principal diagnosis sets the MDC, and same-MDC procedures move the stay to its surgical DRGs. 1,235 same-MDC procedures group here; browse them on the MDC page.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2026

Index entries

  • Status (post), awaiting organ transplant[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Transplant (ed) (status), awaiting organ[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Transplant (ed) (status), candidate[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Waiting list, person on, for organ transplant[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026

Nearest codes (10)

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger) · icd10cm-fy2016

Sources for this page

Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.

Code, title, tabular notes and index terms Official source data
CMS/CDC ICD-10-CM FY2026 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2025 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Coding guidelines Official source data
ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (FY2026), quoted by section Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v43.1 (April 2026) Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Inpatient payment groups Official source data
CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (incl. Appendix B diagnosis index, Appendix C CC/MCC list, Appendix E procedure index) and IPPS Final Rule tables — v43 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS ICD-10-CM release addenda, ingested release by release into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
Written by MedCoder to explain the sources above: drafted with AI assistance, checked by a person against the release files, and labelled as MedCoder text where it appears. Not official text.

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Reference this page in a research guide, syllabus or article. The release is included because code content changes each year.

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Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Awaiting organ transplant status

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027 (effective October 1, 2026), and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to Z76.82 in its code family, with their registry titles.

View all codes in the Z76 family