Z20 Non-Billable Code
Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases
Chapter Classification
Chapter 21
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
Section Detail
Z20-Z29
Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29)
Coding Guidelines & Notes
excludes1
- carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
- diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index
excludes2
- personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-)
More Specific Diagnosis Codes
This code is not billable as it requires a higher level of specificity. Select a more specific code below.
- Z20.0 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to intestinal infectious diseases
- Z20.1 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to tuberculosis Billable
- Z20.2 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission Billable
- Z20.3 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rabies Billable
- Z20.4 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rubella Billable
- Z20.5 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to viral hepatitis Billable
- Z20.6 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] Billable
- Z20.7 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to pediculosis, acariasis and other infestations Billable
- Z20.8 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases
- Z20.9 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease Billable
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