Z20.8

Z20.8: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Z20.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z20.8

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Z20: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases

carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z20.8

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

Written on Z20: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases

personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-)

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 Z20.8

3 child codes. Green means billable.