Z11.6
Z11.6: Encounter for screening for other protozoal diseases and helminthiases
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z11.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for encounter for screening for other protozoal diseases and helminthiases. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Z11.6 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- encounter for screening for protozoal intestinal disease (Z11.0)
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z11.6
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.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Screening›filariasis
- Screening›helminthiasis(intestinal)
- Screening›leishmaniasis
- Screening›malaria
- Screening›protozoal disease
- Screening›schistosomiasis
- Screening›sleeping sickness
- Screening›trypanosomiasis
- Screening›worms, intestinal
- Screening›disease or disorder›Chagas'
- Screening›disease or disorder›protozoal
- Screening›intestinal›helminthiasis
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
- Z11.2Encounter for screening for other bacterial diseases
- 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
- Z11.7Encounter 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