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Z79.632

Long term (current) use of antitumor antibiotic

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2023 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2023 to now.

  1. FY2023 Added to the code set Long term (current) use of antitumor antibiotic

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 Z79 Long term (current) drug therapy

Excludes2 - not included here

  • drug abuse and dependence (F11-F19)
  • drug use complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (O99.32-)

Code also

  • any therapeutic drug level monitoring (Z51.81)

Includes

  • long term (current) drug use for prophylactic purposes

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Z79.630 Long term (current) use of alkylating agent Valid
Z79.631 Long term (current) use of antimetabolite agent Valid
Z79.633 Long term (current) use of mitotic inhibitor Valid
Z79.634 Long term (current) use of topoisomerase inhibitor Valid