kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Code

Z16.20

Resistance to unspecified antibiotic

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Hierarchy

  • Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
    • Z16 Resistance to antimicrobial drugs
      • Z16.2 Resistance to other antibiotics
        • Z16.20 Resistance to unspecified antibiotic
        • Z16.21 Resistance to vancomycin
        • Z16.22 Resistance to vancomycin related antibiotics
        • Z16.23 Resistance to quinolones and fluoroquinolones
        • Z16.24 Resistance to multiple antibiotics
        • Z16.29 Resistance to other single specified antibiotic

Notes

Z16

  • The codes in this category are provided for use as additional codes to identify the resistance and non-responsiveness of a condition to antimicrobial drugs.

Z00-Z99

  • 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.

Inclusion Terms

Z16.20

  • Resistance to antibiotics NOS

Code First

Z16

  • the infection

Excludes 1

Z16

  • Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (A49.02)
    • A49.02 Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, unspecified site
  • Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (J15.212)
    • J15.212 Pneumonia due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  • A41.02 Sepsis due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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