ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z69-Z76 › Z72.5 High risk sexual behavior › Z72.51
High risk heterosexual behavior
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 High risk heterosexual behavior
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 Z72 Problems related to lifestyle
Excludes2 - not included here
- problems related to life-management difficulty (Z73.-)
- problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
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.
- Promiscuity
- High > risk > sexual behavior
- Problem > life-style > high-risk sexual behavior
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Z72.52 | High risk homosexual behavior | Valid |
| Z72.53 | High risk bisexual behavior | Valid |