Z86.6

Personal history of diseases of the nervous system and sense organs

Non-billable header

Z86.6 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

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.

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

  • Conditions classifiable to G00-G99, H00-H95

Parent code

  • Z86Personal history of certain other diseasesHeader

More specific codes Z86.6

  • Z86.61Personal history of infections of the central nervous systemBillable
  • Z86.69Personal history of other diseases of the nervous system and sense organsBillable

Related codes

  • Z86.0Personal history of in-situ and benign neoplasms and neoplasms of uncertain behaviorHeader
  • Z86.1Personal history of infectious and parasitic diseasesHeader
  • Z86.2Personal history of diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanismBillable
  • Z86.3Personal history of endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseasesHeader
  • Z86.5Personal history of mental and behavioral disordersHeader
  • Z86.7Personal history of diseases of the circulatory systemHeader

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