Code
Hierarchy
-
Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
-
Z77-Z99 Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)
-
Z79 Long term (current) drug therapy
-
Z79.8 Other long term (current) drug therapy
-
Z79.81 Long term (current) use of agents affecting estrogen receptors and estrogen levels
-
Z79.82 Long term (current) use of aspirin
-
Z79.83 Long term (current) use of bisphosphonates
-
Z79.84 Long term (current) use of oral hypoglycemic drugs
-
Z79.85 Long-term (current) use of injectable non-insulin antidiabetic drugs
-
Z79.89 Other long term (current) drug therapy
-
-
-
-
Notes
-
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.
Code Also
Includes
-
long term (current) drug use for prophylactic purposes