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Z20.6
Billable

Contact with and (suspected) exposure to human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]

Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services

Excludes1

2 items
  • asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]
  • HIV infection status (Z21)

Billable Code

Z20.6 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

View documentation for exposure to bodily fluids
exposure to bodily fluids
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Exposure to potentially infectious bodily fluids

View documentation for human immunodeficiency virus screening
human immunodeficiency virus screening
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening

View documentation for soft tissue injury exposure
soft tissue injury exposure
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Sexually Transmitted Infection Exposure

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Excludes1

2 items

From Z20:

  • carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
  • diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index

Excludes2

1 item

From Z20:

  • personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-)

Notes

3 items

From 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.
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