Z76.0 — Encounter for issue of repeat prescription
Z76.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for encounter for issue of repeat prescription. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Encounter for issue of repeat prescription for appliance
- Encounter for issue of repeat prescription for medicaments
- Encounter for issue of repeat prescription for spectacles
Risk adjustment
Z76.0 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 Z76.0 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 Z76.0.
- Issue of›repeat prescription(appliance) (glasses) (medicinal substance, medicament, medicine)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z76. If Z76.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Z76.1Encounter for health supervision and care of foundling
- Z76.2Encounter for health supervision and care of other healthy infant and child
- Z76.3Healthy person accompanying sick person
- Z76.4Other boarder to healthcare facility
- Z76.5Malingerer [conscious simulation]
- Z76.8Persons encountering health services in other specified circumstances
Questions about Z76.0
- Is Z76.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z76.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z76.0 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).