Z22.3
Z22.3 — Carrier of other specified bacterial diseases
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Z22.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for carrier of other specified bacterial diseases. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with Z22.3
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Z22.3. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Z22.3 alone.
- O99.82Streptococcus B carrier state complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Risk adjustment
Z22.3 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead Z22.3
6 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z22. If Z22.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Z22.0Carrier of typhoid
- Z22.1Carrier of other intestinal infectious diseases
- Z22.2Carrier of diphtheria
- Z22.4Carrier of infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission
- Z22.6Carrier of human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 [HTLV-1] infection
- Z22.7Latent tuberculosis
- Z22.8Carrier of other infectious diseases
- Z22.9Carrier of infectious disease, unspecified
Questions about Z22.3
- Is Z22.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Z22.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Z22.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29).