Block in Chapter 21
Z69–Z76
Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
Notes
Also from chapter/block level (3 notes)
Inherited from Chapter 21 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
- 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.
Categories in this block 8
- Z69Encounter for mental health services for victim and perpetrator of abuse
- Z70Counseling related to sexual attitude, behavior and orientation
- Z71Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified
- Z72Problems related to lifestyle
- Z73Problems related to life management difficulty
- Z74Problems related to care provider dependency
- Z75Problems related to medical facilities and other health care
- Z76Persons encountering health services in other circumstances