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Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z76)

ICD-10 code Z76 identifies persons encountering health services in special or unusual circumstances that do not fit standard diagnostic categories. This code and its subcategories help detail encounters such as repeat prescription issues, health supervision for infants, or individuals waiting for organ transplants.

The section includes specific codes like Z76.0 for repeat prescription encounters, covering synonyms like repeated prescription or repeat prescription card issued. Z76.2 addresses health supervision of healthy infants with risk factors, also known as high-risk infants or twins/triplets under monitoring. Other notable codes cover situations such as a healthy person accompanying a sick individual (Z76.3), boarders in healthcare facilities (Z76.4), and malingering or feigning symptoms (§Z76.5). The code Z76.82 captures patients awaiting organ transplants, encompassing terms like awaiting transplantation of heart, lung, kidney, or liver. These codes are specifically used for documentation of these unique healthcare encounters rather than diseases, facilitating precise billing and patient records for unusual or administrative healthcare situations. Knowing the ICD-10 code for a specific encounter type ensures accurate coding and communication in medical records.

Clinical Terms

The following clinical terms provide additional context, helping users better understand the clinical background and common associations for each diagnosis listed in this section. Including related terms alongside ICD-10-CM codes supports coders, billers, and healthcare professionals in improving accuracy, enhancing documentation, and facilitating research or patient education.

Air Travel

Travel by means of an airplane, helicopter, or balloon.

Dimenhydrinate

A drug combination that contains diphenhydramine and theophylline. It is used for treating VERTIGO, MOTION SICKNESS, and NAUSEA associated with PREGNANCY.

Malingering

Simulation of symptoms of illness or injury with intent to deceive in order to obtain a goal, e.g., a claim of physical illness to avoid jury duty.

Quarantine

Limited freedom of movement of individuals to reduce the risk of spread of communicable disease by those who have been exposed to infectious or communicable disease in order to prevent its spread; a period of detention of vessels, vehicles, or travelers coming from infected or suspected places; and detention or isolation on account of suspected contagion. It includes government regulations on travel restrictions, border security measures to mitigate spread of a contagion and the detention of animals at frontiers or ports of entrance for the prevention of infectious disease. (From Black's Veterinary Dictionary, 17th ed)

Records

Works on authentic evidence, of something having legal importance. The concept includes certificates of birth, death, etc., as well as hospital, medical, and other institutional records.

Space Flight

Travel beyond the earth's atmosphere.

Travel

MOVEMENT across different GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS.

Travel Medicine

Multidisciplinary field focusing on prevention of infectious diseases and patient safety during international TRAVEL. Key element of patient's pre-travel visit to the physician is a health risk assessment.

Travel Nursing

A type of nursing practice involving licensed professional nurses who travel to work in temporary nursing positions.

Travel-Related Illness

Health problems associated with TRAVEL.