F17.229

Nicotine dependence, chewing tobacco, with unspecified nicotine-induced disorders

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

This is the unspecified option. 4 more specific codes sit alongside it. Worth checking whether the documentation supports one of them.

Exclusions 5 never code together

F17code

Excludes1

Excludes2

tobacco use (smoking) during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O99.33-)O99.33-
toxic effect of nicotine (T65.2-)T65.2-

Excludes2

symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)R00-R99

Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 1

Includes

Index entries leading here 1

Dependence (on) (syndrome) F19.20
- drug NEC F19.20
  - nicotine F17.200
    - chewing tobacco F17.220
      - with disorder F17.229

Alongside this code 4 same parent — F17.22

Additional references

AHA Coding Clinic® Licence required

Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.

Maps to no condition category in any loaded model.

Presence is a property of the code. Untick a model to hide it everywhere.

Present FY2024–FY2027.