2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z04.6
Encounter for general psychiatric examination, requested by authority
- ICD-10-CM Code:
- Z04.6
- ICD-10 Code for:
- Encntr for general psychiatric exam, requested by authority
- Is Billable?
- Yes - Valid for Submission
- Code Navigator:
Z04.6 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of encounter for general psychiatric examination, requested by authority. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024.
Clinical Classification
Clinical Category is Encounter for mental health conditions
- CCSR Category Code: FAC007
- Inpatient Default CCSR: Y - Yes, default inpatient assignment for principal diagnosis or first-listed diagnosis.
- Outpatient Default CCSR: Y - Yes, default outpatient assignment for principal diagnosis or first-listed diagnosis.
Index to Diseases and Injuries References
The following annotation back-references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index. The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10-CM code(s).
- - Admission (for) - See Also: Encounter (for);
- - examination at health care facility (adult) - See Also: Examination; - Z00.00
- - mental health evaluation - Z00.8
- - psychiatric examination (general) - Z00.8
Convert Z04.6 to ICD-9-CM
- ICD-9-CM Code: V70.1 - Psych exam-authority req
Code History
- FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
- FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
- FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.