Z84
Family history of other conditions
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 6
Z84.0 Family history of diseases of the skin, subcu Z84.1 Family history of disorders of kidney and ureter Z84.2 Family history of other diseases of the genitourinary system Z84.3 Family history of consanguinity Z84.8 Family history of other specified conditions Z84.A Family history of exposure to diethylstilbestrol
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