Z22.8

Carrier of other infectious diseases

Billable / specificPOA exempt

Z22.8 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 Z22)

  • 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.-) (from Z22)

Also known as

  • Carrierof, infectious organism, specified NEC

Parent code

  • Z22Carrier of infectious diseaseHeader

Related codes

  • 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
  • Z22.9Carrier of infectious disease, unspecifiedBillable

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