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Z31.7

Z31.7: Encounter for procreative management and counseling for gestational carrier

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z31.7 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for encounter for procreative management and counseling for gestational carrier. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Z31.7 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

  • pregnant state, gestational carrier (Z33.3)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z31.7

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

Written on Z31: Encounter for procreative management

  • complications associated with artificial fertilization (N98.-)
  • female infertility (N97.-)
  • male infertility (N46.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with Z31.7

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

  • Z33.3Pregnant state, gestational carrier

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Counseling›gestational carrier
  • Encounter›procreative management and counseling for gestational carrier
  • Admission›counseling›gestational carrier

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z31

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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