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Z79.62

Non-billable

Long term (current) use of immunosuppressant

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.

More Specific Codes (11)

Z79.6Long term (current) use of immunomodulators and immunosuppressants→Z79.60Long term (current) use of unspecified immunomodulators and immunosuppressants→Z79.61Long term (current) use of immunomodulator→Z79.63Long term (current) use of chemotherapeutic agent→Z79.64Long term (current) use of myelosuppressive agent→Z79.69Long term (current) use of other immunomodulators and immunosuppressants→Z79.620Long term (current) use of immunosuppressive biologic→Z79.621Long term (current) use of calcineurin inhibitor→Z79.622Long term (current) use of Janus kinase inhibitor→Z79.623Long term (current) use of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor→Z79.624Long term (current) use of inhibitors of nucleotide synthesis→