Z69.02
Z69.02 — Encounter for mental health services for non-parental child abuse
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Z69.02 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for encounter for mental health services for non-parental child abuse. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with Z69.02
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Z69.02. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Z69.02 alone.
- Z69.011Encounter for mental health services for perpetrator of parental child abuse
Risk adjustment
Z69.02 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.
Code to one of these instead Z69.02
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z69.0. If Z69.02 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Z69.02
- Is Z69.02 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Z69.02 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Z69.02 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z69-Z76).