Z20.2

Contact with and (suspected) exposure to infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission

Billable / specific

Z20.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Inclusion terms

Includes (from Z20)

  • 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.

Excludes1

Not coded here — never report together with this code.

  • carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-) (from Z20)
  • diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index (from Z20)

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-) (from Z20)

Also known as

  • Contact, gonorrhea
  • Contact, sexually-transmitted disease
  • Contact, syphilis
  • Contact, venereal disease
  • Exposure, gonorrhea
  • Exposure, sexually-transmitted disease
  • Exposure, syphilis
  • Exposure, venereal disease
  • Gonorrhea, contact
  • Gonorrhea, exposure to
  • Syphilis, syphilitic, contact
  • Syphilis, syphilitic, exposure to

Parent code

  • Z20Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseasesHeader

Related codes

  • Z20.0Contact with and (suspected) exposure to intestinal infectious diseasesHeader
  • Z20.1Contact with and (suspected) exposure to tuberculosisBillable
  • Z20.3Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rabiesBillable
  • Z20.4Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rubellaBillable
  • Z20.5Contact with and (suspected) exposure to viral hepatitisBillable
  • Z20.6Contact with and (suspected) exposure to human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]Billable
  • Z20.7Contact with and (suspected) exposure to pediculosis, acariasis and other infestationsBillable
  • Z20.8Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseasesHeader
  • Z20.9Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable diseaseBillable

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