Z76 ICD-10-CA category: Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
Z76 isn’t a code on its own. Choose one of the 18 codes beneath it, the one the documentation supports.
Official description
Z76Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
ICD-10-CA · Canada
Codes in Z76
Z76 isn’t a code on its own. Open the group that matches what the note documents.
Z76.0Issue of repeat prescriptionZ76.1Health supervision and care of foundlingZ76.2Health supervision and care of other healthy infant and childZ76.3Healthy person accompanying sick personZ76.4Other boarder in health-care facilityZ76.5Malingerer [conscious simulation]Z76.8Persons encountering health services in other specified circumstances (11 codes)Z76.9Person encountering health services in unspecified circumstancesNotes for Z76
As CIHI prints them, with any note Z76 takes from the headings above it.
Note
- 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 Z76 sits
- 1ChapterChapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
- 2Block Z70-Z76Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
- 3Category Z76Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
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.
Frequently asked questions
Is Z76 a valid ICD-10-CA code?
No. Z76 (Persons encountering health services in other circumstances) is a category heading in CIHI’s ICD-10-CA FY 2026–2027 release. It holds 18 codes; record the one the documentation supports.
Where is Z76 in ICD-10-CA?
Z76 sits under Z70-Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances, within Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99).
What coding notes apply to Z76?
ICD-10-CA lists Note notes for Z76, 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 Z76
View Z70-Z76Z70Counselling related to sexual attitude, behaviour and orientationZ71Persons encountering health services for other counselling and medical advice, not elsewhere classifiedZ72Problems related to lifestyleZ73Problems related to life-management difficultyZ74Problems related to care-provider dependencyZ75Problems related to medical facilities and other health care