Z99.12
Encounter for respirator [ventilator] dependence during power failure
HCC risk adjustment mapping
CMS-HCC V28
Respirator Dependence/Tracheostomy Status/Complications
CMS-HCC ESRD V24
Respirator Dependence/Tracheostomy Status
Coding notes
Excludes 1 never coded together · Excludes 2 may co-exist
mechanical complication of respirator [ventilator] (J95.850)
Dependence on ventilator
any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)
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.
Official Guidelines for Z99.12
FY 2026 ›Sections that reference Z99.12
- I.B.19.dUse of Z codesConventions & general rules
… inaccessibility of other helping agencies Z76.2, Encounter for health supervision and care of other healthy infant and child Z99.12, Encounter for respirator [ventilator] dependence during power failure The external cause of morbidity codes and the Z codes …
- I.C.21.c.15)Z Codes That May Only be Principal/First-Listed Diagnosis
… health supervision and care of foundling Z76.2 Encounter for health supervision and care of other healthy infant and child Z99.12 Encounter for respirator [ventilator] dependence during power failure
- I.C.21.c.3)Status
… for weaning from a mechanical ventilator, assign a code from subcategory J96.1, Chronic respiratory failure, followed by code Z99.11, Dependence on respirator [ventilator] status. …
- I.B.3Code or codes from A00.0 through T88.9, Z00-Z99.8, U00-U85Conventions & general rules
The appropriate code or codes from A00.0 through T88.9, Z00-Z99.8, and U00-U85 must be used to identify diagnoses, symptoms, conditions, problems, complaints or other reason(s) for the …
- I.C.20.a.1)Used with any code in the range of A00.0-T88.9, Z00-Z99Chapter 20
An external cause code may be used with any code in the range of A00.0-T88.9, Z00-Z99, classification that represents a health condition due to an external cause. …
- IV.BCodes from A00.0 through T88.9, Z00-Z99, U00-U85Outpatient services
The appropriate code(s) from A00.0 through T88.9, Z00-Z99 and U00-U85 must be used to identify diagnoses, symptoms, conditions, problems, complaints, or other reason(s) for the …
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