Z77.9Billable
Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health
Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Billable Code
Z77.9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
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.