F17.21

F17.21: Nicotine dependence, cigarettes

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

F17.21 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for nicotine dependence, cigarettes. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above F17.21

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on F17: Nicotine dependence

history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
tobacco use NOS (Z72.0)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above F17.21

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on F17: Nicotine dependence

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

Other codes that can never be billed with F17.21

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

Z77.22Contact with and (suspected) exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (acute) (chronic)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead F17.21

5 child codes. Green means billable.