Z00-Z99

ICD-10-CM Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services

Chapter 21 of the ICD-10-CM tabular list covers Z00-Z99. It contains 15 blocks of related categories, listed below with the categories published in each.

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.

Z00-Z13Persons encountering health services for examinations

Z14-Z15Genetic carrier and genetic susceptibility to disease

Z16Resistance to antimicrobial drugs

Z17Estrogen, and other hormones and factors receptor status

Z18Retained foreign body fragments

Z19Hormone sensitivity malignancy status

Z20-Z29Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases

Z30-Z39Persons encountering health services in circumstances related to reproduction

Z40-Z53Encounters for other specific health care

Z55-Z65Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances

Z66Do not resuscitate status

Z67Blood type

Z68Body mass index [BMI]

Z69-Z76Persons encountering health services in other circumstances

Z77-Z99Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status

Source

ICD-10-CM FY2026. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “2026 ICD-10-CM Code Descriptions in Tabular Order (icd10cm_order_2026.txt). Download the original file from cms.gov. Public domain (US Government work). Descriptors, billable flags and instructional notes on this page are reproduced from that file without modification. Krasyn adds no clinical guidance.

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