Z79.52 Long term (current) use of systemic steroids
Instructional Notes:
Z79.52 Description: Long term (current) use of systemic steroids ↓
Z79.5 Description: Long term (current) use of steroids ↓
Z79 Description: Long term (current) drug therapy Exclude2:
drug abuse and dependence (F11-F19)
drug use complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (O99.32-)
Include:
long term (current) drug use for prophylactic purposes
Code Also: ['any therapeutic drug level monitoring (Z51.81)'] ↓
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)'] ↓
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.