Z77.12Non-billable
Contact with and (suspected) exposure to hazards in the physical environment
Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Coding Guidance
Z77.12 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are more specific codes below it that contain a greater level of detail. See Related Codes to drill down to more specific billable codes for appropriate reimbursement.
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:
Includes
1 item
Includes
From Z77:
- •contact with and (suspected) exposures to potential hazards to health
Excludes2
7 items
Excludes2
From Z77:
- •contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases (Z20.-)
- •exposure to (parental) (environmental) tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
- •newborn affected by noxious substances transmitted via placenta or breast milk (P04.-)
- •occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-)
- •retained foreign body (Z18.-)
- •retained foreign body fully removed (Z87.821)
- •toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source (T51-T65)
Notes
3 items
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.