Z00-Z99

Note

• Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories

• a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.

• b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person’s health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.

Details

• Z00-Z13 Persons encountering health services for examinations

• Z14-Z15 Genetic carrier and genetic susceptibility to disease

• Z16-Z16 Resistance to antimicrobial drugs

• Z17-Z17 Estrogen receptor status

• Z18-Z18 Retained foreign body fragments

• Z19-Z19 Hormone sensitivity malignancy status

• Z20-Z29 Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases

• Z30-Z39 Persons encountering health services in circumstances related to reproduction

• Z40-Z53 Encounters for other specific health care

• Z55-Z65 Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances

• Z66-Z66 Do not resuscitate status

• Z67-Z67 Blood type

• Z68-Z68 Body mass index (BMI)

• Z69-Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances

• Z77-Z99 Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status

• Z00-Z13

  Persons encountering health services for examinations

• Z14-Z15

  Genetic carrier and genetic susceptibility to disease

• Z16-Z16

  Resistance to antimicrobial drugs

• Z17-Z17

  Estrogen receptor status

• Z18-Z18

  Retained foreign body fragments

• Z19-Z19

  Hormone sensitivity malignancy status

• Z20-Z29

  Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases

• Z30-Z39

  Persons encountering health services in circumstances related to reproduction

• Z40-Z53

  Encounters for other specific health care

• Z55-Z65

  Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances

• Z66-Z66

  Do not resuscitate status

• Z67-Z67

  Blood type

• Z68-Z68

  Body mass index (BMI)

• Z69-Z76

  Persons encountering health services in other circumstances

• Z77-Z99

  Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status