Z13.8Encounter for screening for other specified diseases and disorders

Z13.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for encounter for screening for other specified diseases and disorders. It belongs to category Z13 (encounter for screening for other diseases and disorders), 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 7 subcodes must be used instead.

Within Z13, choose Z13.8 (screening for other specified diseases and disorders) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: screening for diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (Z13.0), screening for diabetes mellitus (Z13.1), screening for nutritional, metabolic and other endocrine disorders (Z13.2), screening examination for mental health and behavioral disorders (Z13.3), screening for certain developmental disorders in childhood (Z13.4), screening for eye and ear disorders (Z13.5), screening for cardiovascular disorders (Z13.6), screening for genetic and chromosomal anomalies (Z13.7) and 1 more.

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: Z13.81 (disorders), Z13.82 (disorder), Z13.83 (NEC), Z13.84 (disorders), Z13.85 (disorders), Z13.88 (contaminants) and Z13.89 (disorder).

The conditions in its Excludes2 note aren't part of Z13.8, but may be coded alongside it if the patient has both: screening for malignant neoplasms (Z12.-).

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