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Z13 ICD-10-CA category: Special screening examination for other diseases and disorders

Z13 isn’t a code on its own. Choose one of the 10 codes beneath it, the one the documentation supports.

Official description

Z13

Special screening examination for other diseases and disorders

ICD-10-CA · Canada

Codes in Z13

Z13 isn’t a code on its own. Open the code that matches what the note documents.

Z13.0Special screening examination for diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanismZ13.1Special screening examination for diabetes mellitusZ13.2Special screening examination for nutritional disordersZ13.3Special screening examination for mental and behavioural disordersZ13.4Special screening examination for certain developmental disorders in childhoodZ13.5Special screening examination for eye and ear disordersZ13.6Special screening examination for cardiovascular disordersZ13.7Special screening examination for congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalitiesZ13.8Special screening examination for other specified diseases and disordersZ13.9Special screening examination, unspecified

Notes for Z13

As CIHI prints them, with any note Z13 takes from the headings above it.

Excludes

Conditions classified elsewhere.

Note

  • Nonspecific abnormal findings disclosed at the time of these examinations are classified to categories (R70-R94).From Z00-Z13 Persons encountering health services for examination and investigation
  • This chapter should not be used for international comparison or for primary mortality coding.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 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. Such factors may be elicited during population surveys, when the person may or may not be currently sick, or be recorded as an additional factor to be borne in mind when the person is receiving care for some illness or injury.From Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)

Where Z13 sits

  1. 1ChapterChapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
  2. 2Block Z00-Z13Persons encountering health services for examination and investigation
  3. 3Category Z13Special screening examination for other diseases and disorders

Source and release

Data release
ICD-10-CA · FY 2026–2027
Effective date
Apr 1, 2026
Publisher
CIHI

This page is built from the ICD-10-CA catalog that Vero Codes reads when it suggests codes: Canadian Institute for Health Information’s FY 2026–2027 release, imported from the publisher’s file and checked against it. The description, notes and structured data come from the same record.

See Z13 in the CIHI source

Frequently asked questions

Is Z13 a valid ICD-10-CA code?

No. Z13 (Special screening examination for other diseases and disorders) is a category heading in CIHI’s ICD-10-CA FY 2026–2027 release. It holds 10 codes; record the one the documentation supports.

Where is Z13 in ICD-10-CA?

Z13 sits under Z00-Z13 Persons encountering health services for examination and investigation, within Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99).

What coding notes apply to Z13?

ICD-10-CA lists Note, Excludes notes for Z13, including those from the headings it sits under. They are listed on this page with where each one comes from.

Which ICD-10-CA release does this page use?

It uses CIHI’s FY 2026–2027 release, in effect from Apr 1, 2026 to Mar 31, 2027. It is a reference: confirm the code against the current list and the payer’s rules before you submit it.

Codes beside Z13

Z00General examination and investigation of persons without complaint and reported diagnosisZ01Other special examinations and investigations of persons without complaint or reported diagnosisZ02Examination and encounter for administrative purposesZ03Medical observation and evaluation for suspected diseases and conditions, ruled outZ04Examination and observation for other reasonsZ08Follow-up examination after treatment for malignant neoplasmZ09Follow-up examination after treatment for conditions other than malignant neoplasmsZ10Routine general health check-up of defined subpopulationZ11Special screening examination for infectious and parasitic diseasesZ12Special screening examination for neoplasms