ICD-10-CM · Chapter 21 · Z00–Z99
Z20.822
Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Quick facts
- Code
- Z20.822
- 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
- 6 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM Z20.822 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 covid-19. 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)
- Z20.09Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other intestinal infectious diseases
- 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
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