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Z00.71

Encounter for examination for period of delayed growth in childhood with abnormal findings

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Encounter for examination for period of delayed growth in childhood with abnormal findings

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from Z00 Encounter for general examination without complaint, suspected or reported diagnosis

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • encounter for examination for administrative purposes (Z02.-)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • encounter for pre-procedural examinations (Z01.81-)
  • special screening examinations (Z11-Z13)

Inherited from the Z00-Z13 section Persons encountering health services for examinations (Z00-Z13)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • examinations related to pregnancy and reproduction (Z30-Z36, Z39.-)

Note

  • Nonspecific abnormal findings disclosed at the time of these examinations are classified to categories R70-R94.

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Z00.70 Encounter for examination for period of delayed growth in childhood without abnormal findings Valid