Block in Chapter 21

Z77–Z99

Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status

Code also

Two codes may be needed to describe the condition. This note gives no sequencing order.

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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.