2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z39

Encounter for maternal postpartum care and examination

    2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
  • Z39 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.
  • The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM Z39 became effective on October 1, 2022.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of Z39 - other international versions of ICD-10 Z39 may differ.
The following code(s) above Z39 contain annotation back-references
Annotation Back-References
In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:
  • Applicable To annotations, or
  • Code Also annotations, or
  • Code First annotations, or
  • Excludes1 annotations, or
  • Excludes2 annotations, or
  • Includes annotations, or
  • Note annotations, or
  • Use Additional annotations
that may be applicable to Z39:
  • Z00-Z99
    2023 ICD-10-CM Range Z00-Z99

    Factors influencing health status and contact with health services

    Note
    • 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.
    Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Code History
  • 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
  • 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
  • 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
  • 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
  • 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
  • 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
  • 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
  • 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To Z39
Z38.61 Triplet liveborn infant, delivered vaginally
Z38.62 Triplet liveborn infant, delivered by cesarean
Z38.63 Quadruplet liveborn infant, delivered vaginally
Z38.64 Quadruplet liveborn infant, delivered by cesarean
Z38.65 Quintuplet liveborn infant, delivered vaginally
Z38.66 Quintuplet liveborn infant, delivered by cesarean
Z38.68 Other multiple liveborn infant, delivered vaginally
Z38.69 Other multiple liveborn infant, delivered by cesarean
Z38.7 Other multiple liveborn infant, born outside hospital
Z38.8 Other multiple liveborn infant, unspecified as to place of birth
Z39 Encounter for maternal postpartum care and examination
Z39.0 Encounter for care and examination of mother immediately after delivery
Z39.1 Encounter for care and examination of lactating mother
Z39.2 Encounter for routine postpartum follow-up
Z40 Encounter for prophylactic surgery
Z40.0 Encounter for prophylactic surgery for risk factors related to malignant neoplasms
Z40.00 Encounter for prophylactic removal of unspecified organ
Z40.01 Encounter for prophylactic removal of breast
Z40.02 Encounter for prophylactic removal of ovary(s)
Z40.03 Encounter for prophylactic removal of fallopian tube(s)
Z40.09 Encounter for prophylactic removal of other organ

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.