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F17 - Nicotine dependence
ICD-10-CM Chapter 5: Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders · F10-F19 Mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use (F10-F19) · Top-level category · FY2027
Coding Guidance
F17 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 1 more specific codes below.
Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes
Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom F17
Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- tobacco use NOS (Z72.0)
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom F17
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- tobacco use (smoking) during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O99.33-)
- toxic effect of nicotine (T65.2-)
IncludesFrom Chapter F01-F99
Conditions this code covers.
- disorders of psychological development
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom Chapter F01-F99
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
More Specific Codes (1)
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Chapter Information
Related ICD-10 Codes
More specific codes for F17
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Codes at the same level as F17
- Vascular dementiaF01
- Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhereF02
- Unspecified dementiaF03
- Amnestic disorder due to known physiological conditionF04
- Delirium due to known physiological conditionF05
- Other mental disorders due to known physiological conditionF06
- Personality and behavioral disorders due to known physiological conditionF07
- Unspecified mental disorder due to known physiological conditionF09
- Alcohol related disordersF10
- Opioid related disordersF11
- Cannabis related disordersF12
- Sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic related disordersF13
- Cocaine related disordersF14
- Other stimulant related disordersF15
- Hallucinogen related disordersF16
- Inhalant related disordersF18
- Other psychoactive substance related disordersF19
- SchizophreniaF20
- Schizotypal disorderF21
- Delusional disordersF22
- Brief psychotic disorderF23
- Shared psychotic disorderF24
- Schizoaffective disordersF25
- Other psychotic disorder not due to a substance or known physiological conditionF28
- Unspecified psychosis not due to a substance or known physiological conditionF29
- Manic episodeF30
- Bipolar disorderF31
- Depressive episodeF32
- Major depressive disorder, recurrentF33
- Persistent mood [affective] disordersF34
- Unspecified mood [affective] disorderF39
- Phobic anxiety disordersF40
- Other anxiety disordersF41
- Obsessive-compulsive disorderF42
- Reaction to severe stress, and adjustment disordersF43
- Dissociative and conversion disordersF44
- Somatoform disordersF45
- Other nonpsychotic mental disordersF48
- Eating disordersF50
- Sleep disorders not due to a substance or known physiological conditionF51
31 more in this chapter.