Z04.72
Encounter for examination and observation following alleged child physical abuse
Billable
Coding Guidelines
Inclusion Terms
- Suspected child physical abuse, ruled out
Excludes1 (Mutually Exclusive)
These codes should never be used together with Z04.72
- confirmed case of child physical abuse (T74.-)
- Z04.42 - encounter for examination and observation following alleged child sexual abuse (Z04.42)
- suspected case of child physical abuse, not ruled out (T76.-)
