Z51.5

Z51.5: Encounter for palliative care

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z51.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for encounter for palliative care. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Z51.5 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Encounter for comfort care
Encounter for hospice care

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z51.5

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Z51: Encounter for other aftercare and medical care

follow-up examination after treatment (Z08-Z09)

Other codes that can never be billed with Z51.5

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

Y66Nonadministration of surgical and medical care

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Palliative care
Care›comfort
Care›hospice
Care›palliative
Encounter›comfort
Encounter›hospice
Encounter›palliative care

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z51