Specific code 2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code V20.1
Other healthy infant or child receiving care
  • Short description: CARE OF HEALTHY CHLD NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM V20.1 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, V20.1 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2008 version of ICD-9-CM V20.1.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM V20.1: 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: V20.1 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM Z76.2 Encounter for health supervision and care of other healthy infant and child
Approximate Synonyms
  • Care of healthy child
Applies To
  • Medical or nursing care supervision of healthy infant in cases of:
    • maternal illness, physical or psychiatric
    • socioeconomic adverse condition at home
    • too many children at home preventing or interfering with normal care
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to V20.1:
  • Care (of)
    • child (routine) V20.1
    • well baby V20.1
  • Healthy
    • infant or child
      • accompanying sick mother V65.0
      • receiving care V20.1
  • High
    • risk
      • behavior -see problem
      • cervical, human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test positive 795.05
      • family situation V61.9
        • specified circumstance NEC V61.8
      • individual NEC V62.89
      • infant NEC V20.1
      • patient taking drugs (prescribed) V67.51
        • nonprescribed (see also Abuse, drugs, nondependent) 305.9
      • pregnancy V23.9
        • inadequate prenatal care V23.7
        • specified problem NEC V23.89
ICD-9-CM codes are used in medical billing and coding to describe diseases, injuries, symptoms and conditions. ICD-9-CM V20.1 is one of thousands of ICD-9-CM codes used in healthcare. Although ICD-9-CM and CPT codes are largely numeric, they differ in that CPT codes describe medical procedures and services. Can't find a code? Start at the root of ICD-9-CM, check the 2008 ICD-9-CM Index or use the search engine at the top of this page to lookup any code.