Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (Z77)

Browse all the diagnosis codes used for other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (z77). For easy navigation, the diagnosis codes are sorted in alphabetical order and grouped by sections. Each section is clearly marked with its description, and the corresponding three-digit code range. This format makes it simple to browse diagnosis codes in this chapter or section and find what you're looking for. We've also added green checkmark icons to label billable codes, and red warning icons for non-billable ones. This makes it easy to identify which codes can be billed.

Clinical Information

Air Pollution - The presence of contaminants or pollutant substances in the air (AIR POLLUTANTS) that interfere with human health or welfare, or produce other harmful environmental effects. The substances may include GASES; PARTICULATE MATTER; or volatile ORGANIC CHEMICALS.

Air Pollution, Indoor - The contamination of indoor air.

Air Pollution, Radioactive - Contamination of air with radioactive substances.

Environmental Pollution - Contamination of the air, bodies of water, or land with substances that are harmful to human health and the environment.

Harmful Algal Bloom - An algal bloom where the algae produce powerful toxins that can kill fish, birds, and mammals, and ultimately cause illness in humans. The harmful bloom can also cause oxygen depletion in the water due to the death and decomposition of non-toxic algae species.

Lung Injury - Damage to any compartment of the lung caused by physical, chemical, or biological agents which characteristically elicit inflammatory reaction. These inflammatory reactions can either be acute and dominated by NEUTROPHILS, or chronic and dominated by LYMPHOCYTES and MACROPHAGES.

Retinal Dysplasia - Congenital, often bilateral, retinal abnormality characterized by the arrangement of outer nuclear retinal cells in a palisading or radiating pattern surrounding a central ocular space. This disorder is sometimes hereditary.

Tobacco Smoke Pollution - Contamination of the air by tobacco smoke.

Vaping - Inhaling of vapors produced by ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS such as E-CIGARETTES.

Water Pollution - Contamination of bodies of water (such as LAKES; RIVERS; SEAS; and GROUNDWATER.)

Water Pollution, Chemical - Adverse effect upon bodies of water (LAKES; RIVERS; seas; groundwater etc.) caused by CHEMICAL WATER POLLUTANTS.

Water Pollution, Radioactive - Contamination of water with radioactive materials and/or substances.

Instructional Notations

Includes

This note appears immediately under a three character code title to further define, or give examples of, the content of the category.

• contact with and (suspected) exposures to potential hazards to health

Type 2 Excludes

A type 2 excludes note represents "Not included here". An excludes2 note indicates that the condition excluded is not part of the condition represented by the code, but a patient may have both conditions at the same time. When an Excludes2 note appears under a code, it is acceptable to use both the code and the excluded code together, when appropriate.

• contact with and suspected exposure to communicable diseases Z20
• exposure to parental environmental tobacco smoke in the perinatal period P96.81
• newborn affected by noxious substances transmitted via placenta or breast milk P04
• occupational exposure to risk factors Z57
• retained foreign body Z18
• retained foreign body fully removed Z87.821
• toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source T51 T65