ICD-10-CM code "Z20.9": Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeZ20.9
DescriptionContact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease
Hierarchy
  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)
  4. Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease (Z20.9)
Billable statusICD-10-CM Billable code

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-)

  4. Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease (Z20.9)

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)
  4. Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease (Z20.9)