ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z20-Z29 › Z20.82 Contact with and (suspected)... › Z20.822
Z20.822
Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2021 to now.
- January 2021 Added to the code set Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19
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-)
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.
- Exposure
- SARS-CoV-2
- Long > COVID
- Coronavirus > 2019
- Coronavirus > COVID-19
- Coronavirus > coronavirus-19
- Infection, infected, infective > COVID-19
- Infection, infected, infective > SARS-CoV-2
- Coagulation, intravascular > COVID-19 associated
- Syndrome > severe acute respiratory > coronavirus 2
- Contact > COVID-19
- COVID-19 > contact
- COVID-19 > exposure
- Exposure > COVID-19
- Contact > SARS-CoV-2
- Exposure > SARS-CoV-2
- Contact > coronavirus 2019
- Exposure > coronavirus 2019
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z20.820 | Contact with and (suspected) exposure to varicella | Valid |
| Z20.821 | Contact with and (suspected) exposure to Zika virus | Valid |
| Z20.828 | Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other viral communicable diseases | Valid |