Contact with and (suspected) exposure to environmental pollution
Non-billable header
Z77.11 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from Z77)
- 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.
Excludes2
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)
Code also
An additional code may be needed.
Parent code
- Z77.1Contact with and (suspected) exposure to environmental pollution and hazards in the physical environmentHeader
More specific codes Z77.11
Related codes
- Z77.12Contact with and (suspected) exposure to hazards in the physical environmentHeader