Z86.010

Personal history of colon polyps

Non-billable header

Z86.010 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Personal history of colorectal polyps
  • Personal history of rectal polyps

Includes (from Z86)

  • 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.

  • personal history of malignant neoplasms (Z85.-) (from Z86.0)

Code first

Sequence the underlying condition first.

  • any follow-up examination after treatment (Z09) (from Z86)

Code also

An additional code may be needed.

  • any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09) (from Z86)

Also known as

  • Personal history of colorectal polyps
  • Personal history of rectal polyps

Parent code

  • Z86.01Personal history of benign neoplasmHeader

More specific codes Z86.010

  • Z86.0100Personal history of colon polyps, unspecifiedBillable
  • Z86.0101Personal history of adenomatous and serrated colon polypsBillable
  • Z86.0102Personal history of hyperplastic colon polypsBillable
  • Z86.0109Personal history of other colon polypsBillable

Related codes

  • Z86.011Personal history of benign neoplasm of the brainBillable
  • Z86.012Personal history of benign carcinoid tumorBillable
  • Z86.018Personal history of other benign neoplasmBillable

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