Z20.81

Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other bacterial communicable diseases

Non-billable header

Z20.81 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Inclusion terms

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.

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)

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

Z20.810Contact with and (suspected) exposure to anthraxBillable
Z20.811Contact with and (suspected) exposure to meningococcusBillable
Z20.818Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other bacterial communicable diseasesBillable

Z20.82Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other viral communicable diseasesHeader
Z20.89Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseasesBillable