ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z69-Z76 › Z71 Persons encountering health... › Z71.2
Person consulting for explanation of examination or test findings
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Person consulting for explanation of examination or test findings
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 Z71 Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified
Excludes2 - not included here
- contraceptive or procreation counseling (Z30-Z31)
- sex counseling (Z70.-)
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.
- Explanation of > investigation finding
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z71.0 | Person encountering health services to consult on behalf of another person | Valid |
| Z71.1 | Person with feared health complaint in whom no diagnosis is made | Valid |
| Z71.3 | Dietary counseling and surveillance | Valid |
| Z71.4 | Alcohol abuse counseling and surveillance | Not billable |
| Z71.5 | Drug abuse counseling and surveillance | Not billable |
| Z71.6 | Tobacco abuse counseling | Valid |
| Z71.7 | Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] counseling | Valid |
| Z71.8 | Other specified counseling | Not billable |
| Z71.9 | Counseling, unspecified | Valid |