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Z13.850

Z13.850: Encounter for screening for traumatic brain injury

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z13.850 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for encounter for screening for traumatic brain injury. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Z13.850 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z13.850

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Z13: Encounter for screening for other diseases and disorders

  • encounter for diagnostic examination-code to sign or symptom

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z13.850

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on Z13.8: Encounter for screening for other specified diseases and disorders

  • screening for malignant neoplasms (Z12.-)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Screening›brain injury, traumatic
  • Screening›traumatic brain injury

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z13.85

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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