Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
Note:
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.
embedded fragment (status) embedded splinter (status) retained foreign body status
Excludes 1:
artificial joint prosthesis status (Z96.6-) foreign body accidentally left during a procedure (T81.5-) foreign body entering through orifice (T15-T19) in situ cardiac device (Z95.-) organ or tissue replaced by means other than transplant (Z96.-, Z97.-) organ or tissue replaced by transplant (Z94.-) personal history of retained foreign body fully removed Z87.821 superficial foreign body (non-embedded splinter) - code to superficial foreign body, by site