Z77.098 — Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous, chiefly nonmedicinal, chemicals
Z77.098 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous, chiefly nonmedicinal, chemicals. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Dyes NOS
Risk adjustment
Z77.098 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
Z77.098 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.
- A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
How Z77.098 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 Z77.098.
- Contact›chemicals NEC(chiefly nonmedicinal) (hazardous)
- Contact›dyes
- Exposure›chemicals NEC(chiefly nonmedicinal) (hazardous)
- Exposure›dyes
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z77.09. If Z77.098 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Z77.098
- Is Z77.098 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z77.098 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z77.098 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99).