2025
ICD-10-CM
Diagnosis
Code

Z16 Resistance to antimicrobial drugs

  • Non-billable
  • 2016–2025

Z16 is a non-billable/non-specific diagnosis code from the 2025 ICD-10-CM used to classify the following condition: Resistance to antimicrobial drugs.

Notes

  • The codes in this category are provided for use as additional codes to identify the resistance and non-responsiveness of a condition to antimicrobial drugs.

Code first

  • The infection

Type 1 excludes

  • Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (A49.02)

  • Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (J15.212)

  • Sepsis due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (A41.02)

Codes

Versions

  1. 2025

    No changes

  2. 2024

    No changes

  3. 2023

    No changes

  4. 2022

    No changes

  5. 2021

    No changes

  6. 2020

    No changes

  7. 2019

    No changes

  8. 2018

    Code changed

    • Type 1 excludes

        • Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (A49.02)
        • Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in diseases classified elsewhere (B95.62)
        • Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (J15.212)
        • Sepsis due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (A41.02)
        • Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (A49.02)
        • Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (J15.212)
        • Sepsis due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (A41.02)
  9. 2017

    No changes

  10. 2016

    New code