Z69
Encounter for mental health services for victim and perpetrator of abuse
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
Z69 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code category for encounter for mental health services for victim and perpetrator of abuse. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are Z69.0 Encounter for mental health services for child abuse problems, Z69.1 Encounter for mental health services for spousal or partner abuse problems and Z69.8 Encounter for mental health services for victim or perpetrator of other abuse.
Includes
Further defines or gives examples of the content of the category.
This code
- counseling for victims and perpetrators of abuse
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.