Code
Hierarchy
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Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
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Z69-Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z69-Z76)
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Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
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Z76.0 Encounter for issue of repeat prescription
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Z76.1 Encounter for health supervision and care of foundling
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Z76.2 Encounter for health supervision and care of other healthy infant and child
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Z76.3 Healthy person accompanying sick person
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Z76.4 Other boarder to healthcare facility
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Z76.5 Malingerer [conscious simulation]
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Z76.8 Persons encountering health services in other specified circumstances
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Notes
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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:
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(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.
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(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
Z76.5
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Person feigning illness (with obvious motivation)