kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Code

Z51.5

Encounter for palliative care

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Hierarchy

  • Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
    • Z40-Z53 Encounters for other specific health care (Z40-Z53)
      • Z51 Encounter for other aftercare and medical care
        • Z51.0 Encounter for antineoplastic radiation therapy
        • Z51.1 Encounter for antineoplastic chemotherapy and immunotherapy
        • Z51.5 Encounter for palliative care
        • Z51.6 Encounter for desensitization to allergens
        • Z51.8 Encounter for other specified aftercare

Notes

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

Z40-Z53

  • Categories Z40-Z53 are intended for use to indicate a reason for care. They may be used for patients who have already been treated for a disease or injury, but who are receiving aftercare or prophylactic care, or care to consolidate the treatment, or to deal with a residual state

Code Also

Z51

  • condition requiring care

Excludes 1

Z51

  • follow-up examination after treatment (Z08-Z09)

Excludes 2

Z40-Z53

  • follow-up examination for medical surveillance after treatment (Z08-Z09)

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