Z85
Personal history of malignant neoplasm
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 2 never code together
Instructional notes 12
Z85code
Use additional code
- code to identify:
- alcohol use and dependence (F10.-)F10.-F10.-F10.-
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)Z77.22Z77.22Z77.22
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)Z87.891Z87.891Z87.891
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)Z57.31Z57.31Z57.31
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)F17.-F17.-F17.-
- tobacco use (Z72.0)Z72.0Z72.0Z72.0
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
Z85.0 Personal history of malignant neoplasm of digestive organs Z85.1 Personal history of malig neoplm of trachea, bronc and lung Z85.2 Prsnl history of malig neoplm of resp and intrathorac organs Z85.3 Personal history of malignant neoplasm of breast Z85.4 Personal history of malignant neoplasm of genital organs Z85.5 Personal history of malignant neoplasm of urinary tract Z85.6 Personal history of leukemia Z85.7 Prsnl hx of malig neoplm of lymphoid, hematpoetc & rel tiss Z85.8 Personal history of malig neoplasms of organs and systems Z85.9 Personal history of malignant neoplasm, unspecified
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