Z13.1
Z13.1 — Encounter for screening for diabetes mellitus
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z13.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for encounter for screening for diabetes mellitus. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Z13.1 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.
How Z13.1 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to Z13.1.
- Screening›diabetes mellitus
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z13. If Z13.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Z13.0Encounter for screening for diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism
- Z13.2Encounter for screening for nutritional, metabolic and other endocrine disorders
- Z13.3Encounter for screening examination for mental health and behavioral disorders
- Z13.4Encounter for screening for certain developmental disorders in childhood
- Z13.5Encounter for screening for eye and ear disorders
- Z13.6Encounter for screening for cardiovascular disorders
- Z13.7Encounter for screening for genetic and chromosomal anomalies
- Z13.8Encounter for screening for other specified diseases and disorders
- Z13.9Encounter for screening, unspecified
Questions about Z13.1
- Is Z13.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z13.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z13.1 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).