Instruction Source: Z91.A41
Caregiver's other noncompliance with patient's medication regimen due to financial hardship
Instruction Source: Z91.A4
Caregiver's other noncompliance with patient's medication regimen
Instruction Source: Z91.A
Caregiver's noncompliance with patient's medical treatment and regimen
Instruction Source: Z91
Personal risk factors, not elsewhere classified
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (Z77.-)
- exposure to pollution and other problems related to physical environment (Z77.1-)
- female genital mutilation status (N90.81-)
- occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-)
- personal history of physical injury and trauma (Z87.81, Z87.82-)
Instruction Source: Z77-Z99
Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)
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: