Coding and coverage · ICD-10-CM

Z02 Encounter for administrative examination

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Codes under this one

  • Z02.0 Encounter for examination for admission to educational institution
  • Z02.1 Encounter for pre-employment examination
  • Z02.2 Encounter for examination for admission to residential institution
  • Z02.3 Encounter for examination for recruitment to armed forces
  • Z02.4 Encounter for examination for driving license
  • Z02.5 Encounter for examination for participation in sport
  • Z02.6 Encounter for examination for insurance purposes
  • Z02.7 Encounter for issue of medical certificateHeader
  • Z02.8 Encounter for other administrative examinationsHeader
  • Z02.9 Encounter for administrative examinations, unspecified

Instructional notes

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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:
  • (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.

Section Z00-Z13

Excludes2Not included here: the patient may have both; report both when both are present.
  • examinations related to pregnancy and reproduction (Z30-Z36, Z39.-)
Notes
  • Nonspecific abnormal findings disclosed at the time of these examinations are classified to categories R70-R94.

Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services · Z00-Z13 Persons encountering health services for examinations (Z00-Z13)

Source: ICD-10-CM FY 2027 code descriptions and tabular list (CMS and CDC National Center for Health Statistics), effective 2026-10-01 through 2027-09-30 · CMS ICD-10 files. HCC mapping: CMS-HCC V28, payment year 2027. As of 2026-11-04.

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