AMA CPT® Assistant - 2014 Issue 9 (September)

ICD-10-CM "Z" Codes (September 2014)

September 2014 pages 8-9 ICD-10-CM "Z" Codes The "Factors Influencing Health Status and Contact with Health Services" chapter in the ICD-10-CM code set provides a listing of all the Z codes (Z00-Z99) which are used to report patient encounters unrelated to an illness or injury or a specific status or condition of a patient. Based on the circumstances that occur during a patient encounter, Z codes may be used either as principal or first- listed diagnosis codes or as secondary diagnosis codes. The Z codes contain between three to six characters that describe the reason for a patient visit...

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