ICD-10-CM · Chapter 21 · Z00–Z99
Z20.09
Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other intestinal infectious diseases
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Quick facts
- Code
- Z20.09
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 21 — Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
- Category
- Z20 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases
- Specificity
- 5 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM Z20.09 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of contact with and (suspected) exposure to other intestinal infectious diseases. Coders assign it when the chart documentation supports this level of detail, always matching to the most specific code available and verifying against the chapter-specific guidelines published annually by NCHS/CMS.
Related codes in Z20
- Z20Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases
- Z20.0Contact with and (suspected) exposure to intestinal infectious diseases
- Z20.01Contact with and (suspected) exposure to intestinal infectious diseases due to Escherichia coli (E. coli)
- Z20.1Contact with and (suspected) exposure to tuberculosis
- Z20.2Contact with and (suspected) exposure to infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission
- Z20.3Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rabies
- Z20.4Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rubella
- Z20.5Contact with and (suspected) exposure to viral hepatitis
- Z20.6Contact with and (suspected) exposure to human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]
- Z20.7Contact with and (suspected) exposure to pediculosis, acariasis and other infestations
- Z20.8Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases
- Z20.81Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other bacterial communicable diseases
- Z20.810Contact with and (suspected) exposure to anthrax
- Z20.811Contact with and (suspected) exposure to meningococcus
- Z20.818Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other bacterial communicable diseases
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