kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Section

Z68.5

Body mass index [BMI] pediatric

Hierarchy

  • Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
    • Z68 Body mass index [BMI]
      • Z68.5 Body mass index [BMI] pediatric
        • Z68.51 Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, less than 5th percentile for age
        • Z68.52 Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, 5th percentile to less than 85th percentile for age
        • Z68.53 Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, 85th percentile to less than 95th percentile for age
        • Z68.54 Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, greater than or equal to 95th percentile for age

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