Z20.822

Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19

Billable / specific

Z20.822 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

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.

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

Z20.820Contact with and (suspected) exposure to varicellaBillable
Z20.821Contact with and (suspected) exposure to Zika virusBillable
Z20.828Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other viral communicable diseasesBillable