Z88
Z88 — Allergy status to drugs, medicaments and biological substances
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Z88 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for allergy status to drugs, medicaments and biological substances. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
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.
- Allergy status, other than to drugs and biological substances (Z91.0-)
Risk adjustment
Z88 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.
Code to one of these instead Z88
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- Z88.0Allergy status to penicillin
- Z88.1Allergy status to other antibiotic agents
- Z88.2Allergy status to sulfonamides
- Z88.3Allergy status to other anti-infective agents
- Z88.4Allergy status to anesthetic agent
- Z88.5Allergy status to narcotic agent
- Z88.6Allergy status to analgesic agent
- Z88.7Allergy status to serum and vaccine
- Z88.8Allergy status to other drugs, medicaments and biological substances
- Z88.9Allergy status to unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances
Questions about Z88
- Is Z88 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Z88 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Z88 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).