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Version 2024
Non-Billable Code

2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z22.3

Carrier of other specified bacterial diseases

ICD-10-CM Code:
Z22.3
ICD-10 Code for:
Carrier of other specified bacterial diseases
Is Billable?
Not Valid for Submission
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Code Classification

  • Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
    (Z00–Z99)
    • Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases
      (Z20-Z29)
      • Carrier of infectious disease
        (Z22)

Z22.3 is a non-specific and non-billable diagnosis code code, consider using a code with a higher level of specificity for a diagnosis of carrier of other specified bacterial diseases. The code is not specific and is NOT valid for the year 2024 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. Category or Header define the heading of a category of codes that may be further subdivided by the use of 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th characters.

Specific Coding Applicable to Carrier of other specified bacterial diseases

Non-specific codes like Z22.3 require more digits to indicate the appropriate level of specificity. Consider using any of the following ICD-10-CM codes with a higher level of specificity when coding for carrier of other specified bacterial diseases:

  • Use Z22.31 for Carrier of bacterial disease due to meningococci - BILLABLE CODE

  • Z22.32 for Carrier of bacterial disease due to staphylococci - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.321 for Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.322 for Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus - BILLABLE CODE

  • Z22.33 for Carrier of bacterial disease due to streptococci - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.330 for Carrier of Group B streptococcus - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.338 for Carrier of other streptococcus - BILLABLE CODE

  • Z22.34 for Carrier of Acinetobacter baumannii - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.340 for Carrier of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.341 for Carrier of carbapenem-sensitive Acinetobacter baumannii - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.349 for Carrier of Acinetobacter baumannii, unspecified - BILLABLE CODE

  • Z22.35 for Carrier of Enterobacterales - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.350 for Carrier of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.358 for Carrier of other Enterobacterales - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.359 for Carrier of Enterobacterales, unspecified - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use Z22.39 for Carrier of other specified bacterial diseases - BILLABLE CODE

Patient Education


Bacterial Infections

Bacteria are living things that have only one cell. Under a microscope, they look like balls, rods, or spirals. They are so small that a line of 1,000 could fit across a pencil eraser. Most types of don't make you sick. Many types are helpful. Some of them help to digest food, destroy disease-causing cells, and give the body needed vitamins. Bacteria are also used in making healthy foods like yogurt and cheese.

But infectious bacteria can make you ill. They reproduce quickly in your body. Many give off chemicals called toxins, which can damage tissue and make you sick. Examples of bacteria that cause infections include Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, and E. coli.

Antibiotics are the usual treatment. When you take antibiotics, follow the directions carefully. Each time you take antibiotics, you increase the chances that bacteria in your body will learn to resist them causing antibiotic resistance. Later, you could get or spread an infection that those antibiotics cannot cure.

NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases


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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.