Z11.2
Z11.2: Encounter for screening for other bacterial diseases
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z11.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for encounter for screening for other bacterial diseases. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Z11.2 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1 inherited from the categories above Z11.2
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on Z11: Encounter for screening for infectious and parasitic diseases
- encounter for diagnostic examination-code to sign or symptom
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
Z11.2 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 0 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 1 listing it as NOT covered. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A52379Billing and Coding: CPT Code 87641 (Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (DNA or RNA); Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin resistant, amplified probe technique)not covered
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Screening›brucellosis
- Screening›diphtheria
- Screening›leprosy
- Screening›plague
- Screening›tetanus
- Screening›whooping cough
- Screening›disease or disorder›bacterial NEC
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under Z11
- Z11.0Encounter for screening for intestinal infectious diseases
- Z11.1Encounter for screening for respiratory tuberculosis
- Z11.3Encounter for screening for infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission
- Z11.4Encounter for screening for human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]
- Z11.5Encounter for screening for other viral diseases
- Z11.6Encounter for screening for other protozoal diseases and helminthiases
- Z11.7Encounter for testing for latent tuberculosis infection
- Z11.8Encounter for screening for other infectious and parasitic diseases
- Z11.9Encounter for screening for infectious and parasitic diseases, unspecified