Z71.42
Z71.42 — Counseling for family member of alcoholic
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z71.42 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for counseling for family member of alcoholic. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Counseling for significant other, partner, or friend of alcoholic
Risk adjustment
Z71.42 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How Z71.42 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to Z71.42.
- Alcohol, alcoholic, alcohol-induced›counseling and surveillance›family member
- Counseling›alcohol abuser›family
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z71.4. If Z71.42 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Z71.42
- Is Z71.42 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z71.42 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z71.42 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z69-Z76).