Z71.81
Z71.81: Spiritual or religious counseling
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z71.81 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for spiritual or religious counseling. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Z71.81 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes2 inherited from the categories above Z71.81
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.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Consultation›religious
- Consultation›spiritual
- Counseling›religious
- Counseling›spiritual
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under Z71.8
- Z71.82Exercise counseling
- Z71.83Encounter for nonprocreative genetic counseling
- Z71.84Encounter for health counseling related to travel
- Z71.85Encounter for immunization safety counseling
- Z71.87Encounter for pediatric-to-adult transition counseling
- Z71.88Encounter for counseling for socioeconomic factors
- Z71.89Other specified counseling