Z12.1
Z12.1: Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of intestinal tract
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Z12.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of intestinal tract. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z12.1
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on Z12: Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasms
- encounter for diagnostic examination-code to sign or symptom
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead Z12.1
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under Z12
- Z12.0Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of stomach
- Z12.2Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of respiratory organs
- Z12.3Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of breast
- Z12.4Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of cervix
- Z12.5Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of prostate
- Z12.6Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of bladder
- Z12.7Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of other genitourinary organs
- Z12.8Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of other sites
- Z12.9Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm, site unspecified