Z20.89

Z20.89: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

Z20.89 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Z20.89 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z20.89

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 Z20.89

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.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Contact›poliomyelitis
Contact›smallpox(laboratory)
Exposure›human T-lymphotropic virus type-1(HTLV-1)
Exposure›poliomyelitis
Exposure›smallpox(laboratory)
Contact›communicable disease›specified NEC
Contact›infection›specified NEC
Exposure›communicable disease›specified NEC

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.