Encounter for general examination without complaint, suspected or reported diagnosis
Non-billable header
Z00 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- 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:
- Note: (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.
- Note: (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.
- Note: Nonspecific abnormal findings disclosed at the time of these examinations are classified to categories R70-R94.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- encounter for examination for administrative purposes (Z02.-)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
More specific codes Z00
- Z00.0Encounter for general adult medical examinationHeader
- Z00.1Encounter for newborn, infant and child health examinationsHeader
- Z00.2Encounter for examination for period of rapid growth in childhoodBillable
- Z00.3Encounter for examination for adolescent development stateBillable
- Z00.5Encounter for examination of potential donor of organ and tissueBillable
- Z00.6Encounter for examination for normal comparison and control in clinical research programBillable
- Z00.7Encounter for examination for period of delayed growth in childhoodHeader
- Z00.8Encounter for other general examinationBillable
Related codes
- Z01Encounter for other special examination without complaint, suspected or reported diagnosisHeader
- Z02Encounter for administrative examinationHeader
- Z03Encounter for medical observation for suspected diseases and conditions ruled outHeader
- Z04Encounter for examination and observation for other reasonsHeader
- Z05Encounter for observation and evaluation of newborn for suspected diseases and conditions ruled outHeader
- Z08Encounter for follow-up examination after completed treatment for malignant neoplasmBillable
- Z09Encounter for follow-up examination after completed treatment for conditions other than malignant neoplasmBillable
- Z11Encounter for screening for infectious and parasitic diseasesHeader
- Z12Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasmsHeader
- Z13Encounter for screening for other diseases and disordersHeader