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Z20

Non-Billable (Header)

Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases

Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together

  • carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
  • diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index

Excludes 2 — Not included here, may code separately

  • personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-)

Child Codes

Code Hierarchy

Z20Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases
Z20Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases

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