ICD-10-CM › F01-F99 › F10-F19 › F17.22 Nicotine dependence, chewing tobacco › F17.220

F17.220

Nicotine dependence, chewing tobacco, uncomplicated

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Nicotine dependence, chewing tobacco, uncomplicated

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from F17 Nicotine dependence

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
  • tobacco use NOS (Z72.0)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • tobacco use (smoking) during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O99.33-)
  • toxic effect of nicotine (T65.2-)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
F17.221 Nicotine dependence, chewing tobacco, in remission Valid
F17.223 Nicotine dependence, chewing tobacco, with withdrawal Valid
F17.228 Nicotine dependence, chewing tobacco, with other nicotine-induced disorders Valid
F17.229 Nicotine dependence, chewing tobacco, with unspecified nicotine-induced disorders Valid