Z77.090 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to asbestos

Instructional Notes:

Z77.090
Description: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to asbestos
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Z77.09
Description: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous, chiefly nonmedicinal, chemicals
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Z77.0
Description: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to hazardous, chiefly nonmedicinal, chemicals
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Z77
Description: Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health
Exclude2:
- contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases (Z20.-)
- exposure to (parental) (environmental) tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
- newborn affected by noxious substances transmitted via placenta or breast milk (P04.-)
- occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-)
- retained foreign body (Z18.-)
- retained foreign body fully removed (Z87.821)
- toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source (T51-T65)
Include:
- contact with and (suspected) exposures to potential hazards to health
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Z77-Z99
Description: Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)
Code Also: ['any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)']
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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.