Is Z20.811 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. Z20.811 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does Z20.811 sit in the tabular list?

Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29).

Z20.811

Z20.811 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to meningococcus

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

Z20.811 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for contact with and (suspected) exposure to meningococcus. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Risk adjustment

Z20.811 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 Z20.811 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 Z20.811.

Contact›meningococcus
Exposure›meningococcus

Related codes at this level

Codes that share Z20.81. If Z20.811 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about Z20.811

Is Z20.811 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. Z20.811 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does Z20.811 sit in the tabular list?: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29).