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

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 10 more specific codes instead:

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

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified

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

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