Z99.1
Dependence on respirator
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
Z99.1 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for dependence on respirator. 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 Z99.11 Dependence on respirator [ventilator] status and Z99.12 Encounter for respirator [ventilator] dependence during power failure. Its coding notes include a Code also instruction.
Guidelines tip
From the FY2027 Official Guidelines. ICD10Ref adds no rules of its own.
A status code is not the same as a history code. It is not added when the diagnosis code already includes the status.
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)
Inclusion terms
Conditions classified to this code.
This code
- Dependence on ventilator
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.