Z78
Other specified health status
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
Z78 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code category for other specified health status. 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 Z78.0 Asymptomatic menopausal state, Z78.1 Physical restraint status and Z78.9 Other specified health status. Its coding notes include a Code also instruction and 3 Excludes2 entries.
Code also
Two codes may be needed to describe the condition. This note gives no sequencing order.
Also from chapter/block level (1 note)
Inherited from Z77–Z99 Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status
- any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
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.