Z02.7
Z02.7 — Encounter for issue of medical certificate
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Z02.7 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for encounter for issue of medical certificate. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
Z02.7 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead Z02.7
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z02. If Z02.7 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Z02.0Encounter for examination for admission to educational institution
- Z02.1Encounter for pre-employment examination
- Z02.2Encounter for examination for admission to residential institution
- Z02.3Encounter for examination for recruitment to armed forces
- Z02.4Encounter for examination for driving license
- Z02.5Encounter for examination for participation in sport
- Z02.6Encounter for examination for insurance purposes
- Z02.8Encounter for other administrative examinations
- Z02.9Encounter for administrative examinations, unspecified
Questions about Z02.7
- Is Z02.7 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Z02.7 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Z02.7 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons encountering health services for examinations (Z00-Z13).
- What cannot be coded together with Z02.7?
- Z02.7 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.