Z76.3
Z76.3 — Healthy person accompanying sick person
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z76.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for healthy person accompanying sick person. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Z76.3 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 Z76.3 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 Z76.3.
- Boarder, hospital NEC›accompanying sick person
- Healthy›person accompanying sick person
- Healthy›infant›accompanying sick mother
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z76. If Z76.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Z76.0Encounter for issue of repeat prescription
- Z76.1Encounter for health supervision and care of foundling
- Z76.2Encounter for health supervision and care of other healthy infant and child
- Z76.4Other boarder to healthcare facility
- Z76.5Malingerer [conscious simulation]
- Z76.8Persons encountering health services in other specified circumstances
Questions about Z76.3
- Is Z76.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z76.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z76.3 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).