Carrier of bacterial disease due to staphylococci

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 2 more specific codes instead:

Z22.321 Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
Z22.322 Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Carrier of bacterial disease due to staphylococci

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 Z22 Carrier of infectious disease

Excludes2 - not included here

carrier of viral hepatitis (B18.-)

Includes

colonization status
suspected carrier

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
Z22.31	Carrier of bacterial disease due to meningococci	Valid
Z22.33	Carrier of bacterial disease due to streptococci	Not billable
Z22.34	Carrier of Acinetobacter baumannii	Not billable
Z22.35	Carrier of Enterobacterales	Not billable
Z22.39	Carrier of other specified bacterial diseases	Valid