Z82
Family history of certain disabilities and chronic diseases (leading to disablement)
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Instructional notes 4
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.
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Subordinate codes 9
Z82.0 Family history of epilepsy and oth dis of the nervous sys Z82.1 Family history of blindness and visual loss Z82.2 Family history of deafness and hearing loss Z82.3 Family history of stroke Z82.4 Family hx of ischem heart dis and oth dis of the circ sys Z82.5 Family history of asthma and oth chronic lower resp diseases Z82.6 Family hx of arthrit and oth dis of the ms sys and conn tiss Z82.7 Fam hx of congen malform, deformations and chromsoml abnlt Z82.8 Family hx of disabil and chr dis leading to disablement, NEC
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