Z77.018

Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous metals

Billable / specific

Z77.018 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Inclusion terms

contact with and (suspected) exposures to potential hazards to health
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 included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases (Z20.-) (from Z77)
exposure to (parental) (environmental) tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81) (from Z77)
newborn affected by noxious substances transmitted via placenta or breast milk (P04.-) (from Z77)
occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-) (from Z77)
retained foreign body (Z18.-) (from Z77)
retained foreign body fully removed (Z87.821) (from Z77)
toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source (T51-T65) (from Z77)

An additional code may be needed.