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Z71.5

Z71.5: Drug abuse counseling and surveillance

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Z71.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for drug abuse counseling and surveillance. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

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Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z71.5

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

Written on Z71: Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified

  • contraceptive or procreation counseling (Z30-Z31)
  • sex counseling (Z70.-)

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 Z71.5

2 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under Z71

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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