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Z71 - Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified

ICD-10-CM Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services · Z69-Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z69-Z76) · Top-level category · FY2027

Coding Guidance

Z71 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 10 more specific codes below.

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom Z71

Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.

  • contraceptive or procreation counseling (Z30-Z31)
  • sex counseling (Z70.-)
NotesFrom Chapter Z00-Z99

Instructional notes from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.

  • 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 (10)

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→

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