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Z31

Encounter for procreative management

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 7 more specific codes instead:

  • Z31.0 Encounter for reversal of previous sterilization
  • Z31.4 Encounter for procreative investigation and testing (also a header)
  • Z31.5 Encounter for procreative genetic counseling
  • Z31.6 Encounter for general counseling and advice on procreation (also a header)
  • Z31.7 Encounter for procreative management and counseling for gestational carrier
  • Z31.8 Encounter for other procreative management (also a header)
  • Z31.9 Encounter for procreative management, unspecified

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Encounter for procreative management

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.

This code

Excludes2 - not included here

  • complications associated with artificial fertilization (N98.-)
  • female infertility (N97.-)
  • male infertility (N46.-)