Carrier of infectious disease
Non-billable header
Z22 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- colonization status
- suspected carrier
- 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.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- carrier of viral hepatitis (B18.-)
More specific codes Z22
- Z22.0Carrier of typhoidBillable
- Z22.1Carrier of other intestinal infectious diseasesBillable
- Z22.2Carrier of diphtheriaBillable
- Z22.3Carrier of other specified bacterial diseasesHeader
- Z22.4Carrier of infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmissionBillable
- Z22.6Carrier of human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 [HTLV-1] infectionBillable
- Z22.7Latent tuberculosisBillable
- Z22.8Carrier of other infectious diseasesBillable
- Z22.9Carrier of infectious disease, unspecifiedBillable