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Z53.2

Non-billable

Procedure and treatment not carried out because of patient's decision for other and unspecified reasons

Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services

Additional Information

From parent codes: Z00-Z99 (Chapter 21)

NotesFrom Z00-Z99

Additional notes from parent codes that apply to this code.

  • 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.