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.
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
- 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
- Z71.6Tobacco abuse counseling
- Z71.7Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] counseling
- Z71.8Other specified counseling
- Z71.9Counseling, unspecified