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Z72.5

Z72.5: High risk sexual behavior

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Z72.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for high risk sexual behavior. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

  • paraphilias (F65)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

  • Promiscuity

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z72.5

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

Written on Z72: Problems related to lifestyle

  • problems related to life-management difficulty (Z73.-)
  • problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)

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 Z72.5

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under Z72

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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