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Z69.021

Encounter for mental health services for perpetrator of non-parental child abuse

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Encounter for mental health services for perpetrator of non- parental child abuse
  2. FY2010 Draft description revised draft Encounter for mental health services for perpetrator of non- parental child abuse Encounter for mental health services for perpetrator of non-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

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Z69.020 Encounter for mental health services for victim of non-parental child abuse Valid