Occupational exposure to risk factors
Non-billable header
Z57 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- 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.
Also known as
- Factors, supplemental, environmental-pollution-related condition- see
More specific codes Z57
- Z57.0Occupational exposure to noiseBillable
- Z57.1Occupational exposure to radiationBillable
- Z57.2Occupational exposure to dustBillable
- Z57.3Occupational exposure to other air contaminantsHeader
- Z57.4Occupational exposure to toxic agents in agricultureBillable
- Z57.5Occupational exposure to toxic agents in other industriesBillable
- Z57.6Occupational exposure to extreme temperatureBillable
- Z57.7Occupational exposure to vibrationBillable
- Z57.8Occupational exposure to other risk factorsBillable
- Z57.9Occupational exposure to unspecified risk factorBillable
Related codes
- Z55Problems related to education and literacyHeader
- Z56Problems related to employment and unemploymentHeader
- Z58Problems related to physical environmentHeader
- Z59Problems related to housing and economic circumstancesHeader
- Z60Problems related to social environmentHeader
- Z62Problems related to upbringingHeader
- Z63Other problems related to primary support group, including family circumstancesHeader
- Z64Problems related to certain psychosocial circumstancesHeader
- Z65Problems related to other psychosocial circumstancesHeader