kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Code

Z68.42

Body mass index [BMI] 45.0-49.9, adult

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Hierarchy

  • Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
    • Z68 Body mass index [BMI]
      • Z68.4 Body mass index [BMI] 40 or greater, adult
        • Z68.41 Body mass index [BMI] 40.0-44.9, adult
        • Z68.42 Body mass index [BMI] 45.0-49.9, adult
        • Z68.43 Body mass index [BMI] 50.0-59.9, adult
        • Z68.44 Body mass index [BMI] 60.0-69.9, adult
        • Z68.45 Body mass index [BMI] 70 or greater, adult

Notes

Z68

  • BMI adult codes are for use for persons 20 years of age or older
  • BMI pediatric codes are for use for persons 2-19 years of age.
  • These percentiles are based on the growth charts published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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

Z68

  • Kilograms per meters squared

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