Z11.59
Encounter for screening for other viral diseases
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 3 never code together
Instructional notes 5
Z11code
Inclusion terms
- Screening is the testing for disease or disease precursors in asymptomatic individuals so that early detection and treatment can be provided for those who test positive for the disease.
Z00-Z13block
Notes
- Nonspecific abnormal findings disclosed at the time of these examinations are classified to categories R70-R94.R70-R94
Z00-Z99chapter
Notes
- Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:Z00-Z99A00-Y89
- (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
- (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.
Index entries leading here 1
- Screening (for) Z13.9
- arthropod-borne viral disease NEC Z11.59
- fever
- dengue fever Z11.59
- disease or disorder Z13.9
- viral NEC Z11.59
- encephalitis, viral (mosquito- or tick-borne) Z11.59
- hemorrhagic fever Z11.59
- measles Z11.59
- poliomyelitis Z11.59
- rubella Z11.59
- viral encephalitis (mosquito- or tick-borne) Z11.59
- yellow fever Z11.59
Alongside this code 2 same parent — Z11.5
Additional references
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