Z20Contact w and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases
ICD-10-CM category (non-billable header) code — part of Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29)
Coding Notes
Excludes1 (never code both together)
- carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
- diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index
Excludes2 (not part of this condition — may code both)
- personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-)
Subcategories (10)
- Z20.0 Contact w and exposure to intestinal infectious diseases
- Z20.1 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to tuberculosis
- Z20.2 Contact w and exposure to infect w a sexl mode of transmiss
- Z20.3 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rabies
- Z20.4 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rubella
- Z20.5 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to viral hepatitis
- Z20.6 Contact w and (suspected) exposure to human immunodef virus
- Z20.7 Cntct w & expsr to pediculosis, acariasis & oth infestations
- Z20.8 Contact w and exposure to oth communicable diseases
- Z20.9 Contact w and exposure to unsp communicable disease