ICD-10-CM code "Z77.9": Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeZ77.9
DescriptionOther contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health
Hierarchy
  1. Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
  2. Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)
  3. Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (Z77)
  4. Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (Z77.9)
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 family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)
  3. Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (Z77)

    Type 2contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases (Z20.-)

    Type 2exposure to (parental) (environmental) tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)

    Type 2newborn affected by noxious substances transmitted via placenta or breast milk (P04.-)

    Type 2occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-)

    Type 2retained foreign body (Z18.-)

    Type 2retained foreign body fully removed (Z87.821)

    Type 2toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source (T51-T65)

  4. Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (Z77.9)

Includes

  1. Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
  2. Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)
  3. Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (Z77)

    Includescontact with and (suspected) exposures to potential hazards to health

  4. Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (Z77.9)