ICD-10-CM Current in FY 2027

Z16

Resistance to antimicrobial drugs

Release: FY 2027
Effective: October 1, 2026

Official source

Official Coding Notes

Reproduced verbatim from the FY 2027 ICD-10-CM files.

Excludes1

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection ( A49.02 )

Excludes1

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia ( J15.212 )

Excludes1

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

Code First

the infection

Note

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.

More Specific Codes

3 codes under Z16

Version History

How Z16 appears in each release imported from the official files, newest first.

FY 2027 Effective October 1, 2026
Current

Resistance to antimicrobial drugs
FY 2026 Effective October 1, 2025
Unchanged

Resistance to antimicrobial drugs

Data Source

Code information on this page is derived from the FY 2027 ICD-10-CM files published by CDC NCHS and CMS.

Release: FY 2027
Effective: October 1, 2026
Source file: icd10cm-code-descriptions-2027.zip

Official ICD-10-CM source files (opens in a new tab)

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