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Z76.5
Malingerer [conscious simulation]
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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 Malingerer [conscious simulation]
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.
- Feigned illness
- Disorder > feigned
- Conscious simulation
- Simulation, conscious
- Behavior > drug seeking
- Malingerer, malingering
- Person > feigning illness
- Problem > behavioral > drug seeking
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z76.0 | Encounter for issue of repeat prescription | Valid |
| Z76.1 | Encounter for health supervision and care of foundling | Valid |
| Z76.2 | Encounter for health supervision and care of other healthy infant and child | Valid |
| Z76.3 | Healthy person accompanying sick person | Valid |
| Z76.4 | Other boarder to healthcare facility | Valid |
| Z76.8 | Persons encountering health services in other specified circumstances | Not billable |