Carrier of Enterobacterales

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, FY2024 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

Z22.350 Carrier of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales
Z22.358 Carrier of other Enterobacterales
Z22.359 Carrier of Enterobacterales, unspecified

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2024 to now.

FY2024 Added to the code set Carrier of Enterobacterales

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

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.

Postsurgery status
Colonization > status
Status > colonization
Carrier of > E. coli
Carrier of > K. pneumoniae

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
Z22.31	Carrier of bacterial disease due to meningococci	Valid
Z22.32	Carrier of bacterial disease due to staphylococci	Not billable
Z22.33	Carrier of bacterial disease due to streptococci	Not billable
Z22.34	Carrier of Acinetobacter baumannii	Not billable
Z22.39	Carrier of other specified bacterial diseases	Valid