Carrier of infectious disease

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 10 more specific codes instead:

Z22.0 Carrier of typhoid
Z22.1 Carrier of other intestinal infectious diseases
Z22.2 Carrier of diphtheria
Z22.3 Carrier of other specified bacterial diseases (also a header)
Z22.4 Carrier of infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission
Z22.5 Carrier of viral hepatitis (also a header)
Z22.6 Carrier of human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 [HTLV-1] infection
Z22.7 Latent tuberculosis
Z22.8 Carrier of other infectious diseases
Z22.9 Carrier of infectious disease, unspecified

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 Carrier of infectious disease

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.

This code

Excludes2 - not included here

carrier of viral hepatitis (B18.-)

Includes

colonization status
suspected carrier