Is Z30.019 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. Z30.019 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does Z30.019 sit in the tabular list?

Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons encountering health services in circumstances related to reproduction (Z30-Z39).

What cannot be coded together with Z30.019?

Z30.019 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above Z30.019 (Z30.01) and apply to it just the same.

Z30.019

Z30.019 — Encounter for initial prescription of contraceptives, unspecified

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z30.019 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for encounter for initial prescription of contraceptives, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z30.019

These are not written on Z30.019, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing Z30.019 with anything listed here is a denial.

Written on Z30.01 — Encounter for initial prescription of contraceptives

encounter for surveillance of contraceptives (Z30.4-)

Other codes that can never be billed with Z30.019

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Z30.019. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Z30.019 alone.

Z92.0Personal history of contraception

Risk adjustment

Z30.019 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 Z30.019 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 Z30.019.

Prescription of contraceptives(initial)
Contraception, contraceptive›initial prescription
Contraception, contraceptive›prescription

Code history

Z30.019 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share Z30.01. If Z30.019 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about Z30.019

Is Z30.019 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. Z30.019 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does Z30.019 sit in the tabular list?: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons encountering health services in circumstances related to reproduction (Z30-Z39).
What cannot be coded together with Z30.019?: Z30.019 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above Z30.019 (Z30.01) and apply to it just the same.