Z20.9 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease
Instructional Notes:
Z20.9 Description: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease ↓
Z20 Description: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases Exclude1:
carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index
Exclude2:
personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-)
↓
Z20-Z29 Description: Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29) ↓
Z00-Z99 Description: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services 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.