Z69.020 — Encounter for mental health services for victim of non-parental child abuse
Z69.020 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for encounter for mental health services for victim of non-parental child abuse. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Encounter for mental health services for victim of non-parental child neglect
- Encounter for mental health services for victim of non-parental child psychological abuse
- Encounter for mental health services for victim of non-parental child sexual abuse
Risk adjustment
Z69.020 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.
Medicare coverage
Z69.020 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A57130Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Codes
How Z69.020 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 Z69.020.
- Counseling›child abuse›nonparental›victim
- Counseling›victim›child abuse›non-parental
- Encounter›mental health services›child abuse›nonparental›victim
- Encounter›mental health services›child neglect›nonparental›victim
- Encounter›mental health services›child psychological abuse›nonparental›victim
- Encounter›mental health services›child sexual abuse›nonparental›victim
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z69.02. If Z69.020 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Z69.020
- Is Z69.020 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z69.020 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z69.020 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).