Z71
Z71: Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Z71 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with Z71
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
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 Z71
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- Z71.0Person encountering health services to consult on behalf of another person
- Z71.1Person with feared health complaint in whom no diagnosis is made
- Z71.2Person consulting for explanation of examination or test findings
- Z71.3Dietary counseling and surveillance
- Z71.4Alcohol abuse counseling and surveillance
- Z71.5Drug abuse counseling and surveillance
- Z71.6Tobacco abuse counseling
- Z71.7Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] counseling
- Z71.8Other specified counseling
- Z71.9Counseling, unspecified