ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z77-Z99 › Z88 Allergy status to drugs,... › Z88.9
Allergy status to unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances
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 Allergy status to unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances status
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FY2021
Description revised
Allergy status to unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances statusAllergy status to unspecified 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.
Inherited from Z88 Allergy status to drugs, medicaments and biological substances
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)
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.
- History > personal
- Disorder > allergic
- Hypersusceptibility
- Reaction > allergic
- Sensitive, sensitivity
- History > personal > cancer
- History > personal > malignant neoplasm > carcinoid
- Hypersensitive, hypersensitiveness, hypersensitivity
- History > personal > allergy
- History > personal > allergy > medicinal agents
- History > personal > allergy > drugs, medicaments and biological substances
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z88.0 | Allergy status to penicillin | Valid |
| Z88.1 | Allergy status to other antibiotic agents | Valid |
| Z88.2 | Allergy status to sulfonamides | Valid |
| Z88.3 | Allergy status to other anti-infective agents | Valid |
| Z88.4 | Allergy status to anesthetic agent | Valid |
| Z88.5 | Allergy status to narcotic agent | Valid |
| Z88.6 | Allergy status to analgesic agent | Valid |
| Z88.7 | Allergy status to serum and vaccine | Valid |
| Z88.8 | Allergy status to other drugs, medicaments and biological substances | Valid |