Z71
Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 2 never code together
Instructional notes 3
Z00-Z99chapter
Notes
- Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:Z00-Z99A00-Y89
- (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
- (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.
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Subordinate codes 10
Z71.0 Prsn encntr hlth serv to consult on behalf of another person Z71.1 Person w feared hlth complaint in whom no diagnosis is made Z71.2 Person consulting for explanation of exam or test findings Z71.3 Dietary counseling and surveillance Z71.4 Alcohol abuse counseling and surveillance Z71.5 Drug abuse counseling and surveillance Z71.6 Tobacco abuse counseling Z71.7 Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] counseling Z71.8 Other specified counseling Z71.9 Counseling, unspecified
Additional references
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