Instruction Source: Z53.21
Procedure and treatment not carried out due to patient leaving prior to being seen by health care provider
Instruction Source: Z53.2
Procedure and treatment not carried out because of patient's decision for other and unspecified reasons
Instruction Source: Z53
Persons encountering health services for specific procedures and treatment, not carried out
Instruction Source: Z40-Z53
Encounters for other specific health care (Z40-Z53)
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- follow-up examination for medical surveillance after treatment (Z08-Z09)
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: