Z77.028
Z77.028: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous aromatic compounds
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
Z77.028 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous aromatic compounds. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Z77.028 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Aromatic dyes NOS
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z77.028
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on Z77: Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health
- contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases (Z20.-)
- exposure to (parental) (environmental) tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
- newborn affected by noxious substances transmitted via placenta or breast milk (P04.-)
- occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-)
- retained foreign body (Z18.-)
- retained foreign body fully removed (Z87.821)
- toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source (T51-T65)
Other codes that can never be billed with Z77.028
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Contact›aromatic compounds NEC(hazardous)
- Contact›aromatic dyes NOS
- Contact›polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- Exposure›aromatic compounds NEC(hazardous)
- Exposure›aromatic dyes NOS
- Exposure›polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.