Body mass index [BMI] pediatric
Non-billable header
Z68.5 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from Z68)
- 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.
- Note: BMI adult codes are for use for persons 20 years of age or older
- Note: BMI pediatric codes are for use for persons 2-19 years of age.
- Note: These percentiles are based on the growth charts published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Parent code
- Z68Body mass index [BMI]Header
More specific codes Z68.5
- Z68.51Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, less than 5th percentile for ageBillable
- Z68.52Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, 5th percentile to less than 85th percentile for ageBillable
- Z68.53Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, 85th percentile to less than 95th percentile for ageBillable
- Z68.54Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, 95th percentile for age to less than 120% of the 95th percentile for ageBillable
- Z68.55Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, 120% of the 95th percentile for age to less than 140% of the 95th percentile for ageBillable
- Z68.56Body mass index [BMI] pediatric, greater than or equal to 140% of the 95th percentile for ageBillable