Encounter for mental health services for parental child abuse

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:

Z69.010 Encounter for mental health services for victim of parental child abuse
Z69.011 Encounter for mental health services for perpetrator of parental child abuse

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 Encounter for mental health services for parental child abuse

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 Z69 Encounter for mental health services for victim and perpetrator of abuse

Includes

counseling for victims and perpetrators of abuse

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
Z69.02	Encounter for mental health services for non-parental child abuse	Not billable