ICD-10-CM code "Z20": Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases (2024)

Excludes

1. Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
2. Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29)
3. Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases (Z20)

   Type 1carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)

   Type 1diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index

   Type 2personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-)

Includes

1. Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
2. Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29)
3. Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases (Z20)

Subcategories

• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to intestinal infectious diseases (Z20.0)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to tuberculosis (Z20.1)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (Z20.2)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rabies (Z20.3)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rubella (Z20.4)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to viral hepatitis (Z20.5)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] (Z20.6)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to pediculosis, acariasis and other infestations (Z20.7)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases (Z20.8)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease (Z20.9)