Instruction Source: Z20.4
Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rubella
Instruction Source: Z20
Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
- diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-)
Instruction Source: Z20-Z29
Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29)
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: