Z95.0 ICD-10-CM Code: Presence of cardiac pacemaker
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)
MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), 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.
Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.
Official Registry Overview & Definition
Official Tabular Instructional Notes
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for Z95.0 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Inclusion Terms
Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.
- Presence of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT-P) pacemaker
Excludes1 — Not Coded Here
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
- adjustment or management of cardiac device (Z45.0-)
- adjustment or management of cardiac pacemaker (Z45.0)
- presence of automatic (implantable) cardiac defibrillator with synchronous cardiac pacemaker (Z95.810)
Excludes2 — Not Included Here
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
- complications of cardiac and vascular devices, implants and grafts (T82.-)
Code Also
Additional codes that may be required to fully describe the encounter.
- any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to Z95.0 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- Z95 — Presence of cardiac and vascular implants and grafts
- Z95.1 — Presence of aortocoronary bypass graft
- Z95.2 — Presence of prosthetic heart valve
- Z95.3 — Presence of xenogenic heart valve
- Z95.4 — Presence of other heart-valve replacement
- Z95.5 — Presence of coronary angioplasty implant and graft
- Z95.8 — Presence of other cardiac and vascular implants and grafts
- Z95.81 — Presence of other cardiac implants and grafts
- Z95.810 — Presence of automatic (implantable) cardiac defibrillator
- Z95.811 — Presence of heart assist device
Indexed Clinical Terms (6)
Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.
- Cardiac, pacemaker, in situ
- Presence (of), cardiac, pacemaker
- Presence (of), cardiac, resynchronization therapy, pacemaker
- Presence (of), CRT-P (cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker)
- Presence (of), implanted device (artificial) (functional) (prosthetic), cardiac pacemaker
- Status (post), pacemaker, cardiac