Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other viral communicable diseases

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:

Z20.820 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to varicella
Z20.821 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to Zika virus
Z20.822 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19
Z20.828 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other viral communicable diseases

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other viral communicable diseases

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 Z20 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases

Excludes1 - never coded here

carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index

Excludes2 - not included here

personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-)

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
Z20.81	Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other bacterial communicable diseases	Not billable
Z20.89	Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases	Valid