kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Section

Z20

Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases

Hierarchy

  • Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
    • Z20-Z29 Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29)
      • Z20 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases
        • Z20.0 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to intestinal infectious diseases
        • Z20.1 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to tuberculosis
        • Z20.2 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission
        • Z20.3 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rabies
        • Z20.4 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rubella
        • Z20.5 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to viral hepatitis
        • Z20.6 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]
        • Z20.7 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to pediculosis, acariasis and other infestations
        • Z20.8 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases
        • Z20.9 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease

Notes

Z00-Z99

  • Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
  • (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.

Excludes 1

Z20

  • Z22 Carrier of infectious disease
  • diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index

Excludes 2

Z20

  • Z86.1 Personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases