Z76.0 Encounter for issue of repeat prescription

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026. Exempt from present-on-admission (POA) reporting.

Applicable to

• Encounter for issue of repeat prescription for appliance
• Encounter for issue of repeat prescription for medicaments
• Encounter for issue of repeat prescription for spectacles

Excludes2 (not included here)

• issue of medical certificate (Z02.7)
• repeat prescription for contraceptive (Z30.4-)

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 951 in MDC 23.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• V68.1 Issue of repeat prescriptions

Medicare Code Edits (MCE v43.1 (April 2026))

• Unacceptable principal diagnosis: These codes describe a circumstance which influences care but is not a current illness or injury, or capture only an underlying condition, and are unacceptable as principal diagnosis.

Code annotations containing back-references to Z76.0

Back-references to Z76.0

• Type 2 Excludes: Z46 Encounter for fitting and adjustment of other devices ("issue of repeat prescription only (Z76.0)")

Diagnosis Index entries for Z76.0

• Issue of › repeat prescription (appliance) (glasses) (medicinal substance, medicament, medicine)

Nearby codes

• Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
• Z76.0 Encounter for issue of repeat prescription (this code)
• Z76.1 Encounter for health supervision and care of foundling
• Z76.2 Encounter for health supervision and care of other healthy infant and child
• Z76.3 Healthy person accompanying sick person
• Z76.4 Other boarder to healthcare facility
• Z76.5 Malingerer [conscious simulation]