Z68.53Billable
Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, 85th percentile to less than 95th percentile for age
Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Billable Code
Z68.53 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 pediatric body mass index
pediatric body mass index
View TemplatesPediatric Body Mass Index (BMI)
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.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Inclusion Terms
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Inclusion Terms
From Z68:
- •Kilograms per meters squared
Notes
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Notes
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.
From 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)