kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Code

Z79.51

Long term (current) use of inhaled steroids

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Hierarchy

  • Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
    • Z77-Z99 Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)
      • Z79 Long term (current) drug therapy
        • Z79.5 Long term (current) use of steroids
          • Z79.51 Long term (current) use of inhaled steroids
          • Z79.52 Long term (current) use of systemic steroids

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.

Code Also

Z79

  • any therapeutic drug level monitoring (Z51.81)
    • Z51.81 Encounter for therapeutic drug level monitoring

Z77-Z99

  • any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)

Includes

Z79

  • long term (current) drug use for prophylactic purposes

Excludes 2

Z79

  • drug abuse and dependence (F11-F19)
  • O99.32 Drug use complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium

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