ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z77-Z99 › Z77.12 Contact with and (suspected)... › Z77.128
Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazards in the physical environment
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 2010 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.
- FY2010 Added to the draft code set draft Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazards in the physical environment
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 Z77 Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health
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.
- Exposure
- Contact > hazards in the physical environment NEC
- Exposure > hazards in the physical environment NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z77.120 | Contact with and (suspected) exposure to mold (toxic) | Valid |
| Z77.121 | Contact with and (suspected) exposure to harmful algae and algae toxins | Valid |
| Z77.122 | Contact with and (suspected) exposure to noise | Valid |
| Z77.123 | Contact with and (suspected) exposure to radon and other naturally occurring radiation | Valid |