Code
Hierarchy
Notes
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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:
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(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.
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(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.
Code Also
Z15.1
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, if applicable, related disorders such as:
- G93.45 Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy
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developmental disorder of speech and language (F80.-)
- F80 Specific developmental disorders of speech and language
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developmental disorders of scholastic skills (F81.-)
- F81 Specific developmental disorders of scholastic skills
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epilepsy, by specific type (G40.-)
- G40 Epilepsy and recurrent seizures
- F70-F79 Intellectual Disabilities (F70-F79)
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other neurodevelopmental disorder (F88)
- F88 Other disorders of psychological development
- F84 Pervasive developmental disorders
Use Additional
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code, if applicable, for any associated family history of the disease (Z80-Z84)
Includes
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confirmed abnormal gene