Z71UpcomingCategory · further specificity required

Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified

Excludes 2 · 2

Z71

Excludes 2

contraceptive or procreation counseling (Z30-Z31)
sex counseling (Z70.-)

More specific codes

Z71.0Person encountering health services to consult on behalf of another person Z71.1Person with feared health complaint in whom no diagnosis is made Z71.2Person consulting for explanation of examination or test findings Z71.3Dietary counseling and surveillance Z71.4Alcohol abuse counseling and surveillance Z71.5Drug abuse counseling and surveillance Z71.6Tobacco abuse counseling Z71.7Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] counseling Z71.8Other specified counseling Z71.9Counseling, unspecified

Claims & coverage

When ICD-10-CM is required

For US diagnosis claims covered by HIPAA, ICD-10-CM is required from October 1, 2015.

Use the service date for outpatient/professional claims and the discharge date for hospital inpatient claims. Earlier encounters use ICD-9-CM; each individual code must also be valid for the applicable date.

Official coding guidelines → · CMS ↗

First observed · 2015-10-01

Code history

No recorded change since first observation

ChangedUnchanged

FY2016

Effective from 2015-10-01

First observed

Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified

Category — select a more specific code

CDC/NCHS · FY2016

All editions (19)

All editions	Effective from	Code history
FY2016	2015-10-01	First observed
FY2017	2016-10-01	No tabular change
FY2018	2017-10-01	No tabular change
FY2019	2018-10-01	No tabular change
FY2020	2019-10-01	No tabular change
FY2020 · April	2020-04-01	No tabular change
FY2021	2020-10-01	No tabular change
FY2021 · 01-01	2021-01-01	No tabular change
FY2022	2021-10-01	No tabular change
FY2022 · 04-01	2022-04-01	No tabular change
FY2023	2022-10-01	No tabular change
FY2023 · 04-01	2023-04-01	No tabular change
FY2024	2023-10-01	No tabular change
FY2024 · 04-01	2024-04-01	No tabular change
FY2025	2024-10-01	No tabular change
FY2025 · 04-01	2025-04-01	No tabular change
FY2026	2025-10-01	No tabular change
FY2026 · April	2026-04-01	No tabular change
FY2027	2026-10-01	No tabular change

Code-level instructions

Excludes 2

contraceptive or procreation counseling (Z30-Z31)
sex counseling (Z70.-)

Inherited instructions

Chapters 21 · Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)

Note

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.

More specific codes

Z71.0Person encountering health services to consult on behalf of another personBillable / specific Z71.1Person with feared health complaint in whom no diagnosis is madeBillable / specific Z71.2Person consulting for explanation of examination or test findingsBillable / specific Z71.3Dietary counseling and surveillanceBillable / specific Z71.4Alcohol abuse counseling and surveillanceCategory · further specificity required Z71.5Drug abuse counseling and surveillanceCategory · further specificity required Z71.6Tobacco abuse counselingBillable / specific Z71.7Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] counselingBillable / specific Z71.8Other specified counselingCategory · further specificity required Z71.9Counseling, unspecifiedBillable / specific

Related codes

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