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Z88

Allergy status to drugs, medicaments and biological substances

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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • Z88.0 Allergy status to penicillin
  • Z88.1 Allergy status to other antibiotic agents
  • Z88.2 Allergy status to sulfonamides
  • Z88.3 Allergy status to other anti-infective agents
  • Z88.4 Allergy status to anesthetic agent
  • Z88.5 Allergy status to narcotic agent
  • Z88.6 Allergy status to analgesic agent
  • Z88.7 Allergy status to serum and vaccine
  • Z88.8 Allergy status to other drugs, medicaments and biological substances
  • Z88.9 Allergy status to unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances

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 Allergy status to drugs, medicaments and biological substances

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

  • Allergy status, other than to drugs and biological substances (Z91.0-)

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)