Contact with and (suspected) exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (acute) (chronic)
Billable / specific
Z77.22 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Exposure to second hand tobacco smoke (acute) (chronic)
- Passive smoking (acute) (chronic)
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.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- 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.
Also known as
- Exposure to second hand tobacco smoke (acute) (chronic)
- Passive smoking (acute) (chronic)
- Exposure, environmental tobacco smoke
- Exposure, second hand tobacco smoke
- Passive, smoking
- Second hand tobacco smoke exposure
- Smoking, passive
- Exposure, smoke, tobacco, second hand
Parent code
- Z77.2Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous substancesHeader