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Z77

Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health

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 6 more specific codes instead:

  • Z77.0 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to hazardous, chiefly nonmedicinal, chemicals (also a header)
  • Z77.1 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to environmental pollution and hazards in the physical environment (also a header)
  • Z77.2 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous substances (also a header)
  • Z77.3 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to war theater (also a header)
  • Z77.4 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to blast overpressure (also a header)
  • Z77.9 Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health

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.

This code

Excludes2 - not included here

  • contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases (Z20.-)
  • exposure to (parental) (environmental) tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
  • newborn affected by noxious substances transmitted via placenta or breast milk (P04.-)
  • occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-)
  • retained foreign body (Z18.-)
  • retained foreign body fully removed (Z87.821)
  • toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source (T51-T65)

Includes

  • contact with and (suspected) exposures to potential hazards to health

Inherited from the Z77-Z99 section Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)

Code also

  • any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)

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.