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.

Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z69-Z76)

Z69 Encounter for mental health services for victim and perpetrator of abuse [+]
Includes: counseling for victims and perpetrators of abuse
Z70 Counseling related to sexual attitude, behavior and orientation [+]
Includes: encounter for mental health services for sexual attitude, behavior and orientation
Excludes 2: contraceptive or procreative counseling (Z30-Z31)
Z71 Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified [+]
Excludes 2: contraceptive or procreation counseling (Z30-Z31)
sex counseling (Z70.-)
Z72 Problems related to lifestyle [+]
Excludes 2: problems related to life-management difficulty (Z73.-)
problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
Z73 Problems related to life management difficulty [+]
Excludes 2: problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
Z74 Problems related to care provider dependency [+]
Excludes 2: dependence on enabling machines or devices NEC (Z99.-)
Z75 Problems related to medical facilities and other health care [+]
Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances [+]

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