kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Code

Z22.321

Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus

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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)
      • Z22 Carrier of infectious disease
        • Z22.3 Carrier of other specified bacterial diseases
          • Z22.32 Carrier of bacterial disease due to staphylococci
            • Z22.321 Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
            • Z22.322 Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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.

Inclusion Terms

Z22.321

  • MSSA colonization

Includes

Z22

  • colonization status
  • suspected carrier

Excludes 2

Z22

  • carrier of viral hepatitis (B18.-)
    • B18 Chronic viral hepatitis

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