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Z02.5

Encounter for examination for participation in sport

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 participation in sport

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 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
Z02.0 Encounter for examination for admission to educational institution Valid
Z02.1 Encounter for pre-employment examination Valid
Z02.2 Encounter for examination for admission to residential institution Valid
Z02.3 Encounter for examination for recruitment to armed forces Valid
Z02.4 Encounter for examination for driving license Valid
Z02.6 Encounter for examination for insurance purposes Valid
Z02.7 Encounter for issue of medical certificate Not billable
Z02.8 Encounter for other administrative examinations Not billable
Z02.9 Encounter for administrative examinations, unspecified Valid