Code
Hierarchy
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Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
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
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any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)
Excludes 1
Z98.61
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coronary angioplasty status with implant and graft (Z95.5)
- Z95.5 Presence of coronary angioplasty implant and graft