Z68.38 Body mass index [BMI] 38.0-38.9, adult
Instructional Notes:
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Z68.38
Description: Body mass index [BMI] 38.0-38.9, adult
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Z68.3
Description: Body mass index [BMI] 30-39, adult
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Z68
Description: Body mass index [BMI] (Z68)
Notes:- BMI adult codes are for use for persons 20 years of age or older
- BMI pediatric codes are for use for persons 2-19 years of age.
- These percentiles are based on the growth charts published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Kilograms per meters squared
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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.