Z11.5Encounter for screening for other viral diseases

Z11.5 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for encounter for screening for other viral diseases. It belongs to category Z11 (encounter for screening for infectious and parasitic diseases), block Z00-Z13 (persons encountering health services for examinations) and chapter 21 (factors influencing health status and contact with health services). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within Z11, choose Z11.5 (screening for other viral diseases) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: screening for intestinal infectious diseases (Z11.0), screening for respiratory tuberculosis (Z11.1), screening for other bacterial diseases (Z11.2), screening for infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (Z11.3), screening for human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] (Z11.4), screening for other protozoal diseases and helminthiases (Z11.6), testing for latent tuberculosis infection (Z11.7), screening for other infectious and parasitic diseases (Z11.8) and 1 more.

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: Z11.51 ((HPV)), Z11.52 (COVID-19) and Z11.59 (diseases).

The conditions in its Excludes2 note aren't part of Z11.5, but may be coded alongside it if the patient has both: encounter for screening for viral intestinal disease (Z11.0).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.