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Z71.89

Other specified counseling

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 Other specified counseling

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Z71.81 Spiritual or religious counseling Valid
Z71.82 Exercise counseling Valid
Z71.83 Encounter for nonprocreative genetic counseling Valid
Z71.84 Encounter for health counseling related to travel Valid
Z71.85 Encounter for immunization safety counseling Valid
Z71.87 Encounter for pediatric-to-adult transition counseling Valid
Z71.88 Encounter for counseling for socioeconomic factors Valid