Instruction Source: Z00.111
Health examination for newborn 8 to 28 days old
Instruction Source: Z00.11
Newborn health examination
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- health check for child over 28 days old (Z00.12-)
Instruction Source: Z00.1
Encounter for newborn, infant and child health examinations
Instruction Source: Z00
Encounter for general examination without complaint, suspected or reported diagnosis
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- encounter for examination for administrative purposes (Z02.-)
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- encounter for pre-procedural examinations (Z01.81-)
- special screening examinations (Z11-Z13)
Instruction Source: Z00-Z13
Persons encountering health services for examinations (Z00-Z13)
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- examinations related to pregnancy and reproduction (Z30-Z36, Z39.-)
Clinical Notes
- Nonspecific abnormal findings disclosed at the time of these examinations are classified to categories R70-R94.
Instruction Source: Z00-Z99
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Clinical Notes
- (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.
- 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: