Z77.29
Z77.29: Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous substances
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
Z77.29 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for contact with and (suspected) exposure to other hazardous substances. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Z77.29 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes2 inherited from the categories above Z77.29
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 Z77.29
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›hazardous substances NEC
- Exposure›hazardous substances NEC
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.