Z83.718 — Family history of other colon polyps
Z83.718 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for family history of other colon polyps. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Family history of inflammatory colon polyps
Risk adjustment
Z83.718 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.
Medicare coverage
Z83.718 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56632Billing and Coding: Colonoscopy/Sigmoidoscopy/Proctosigmoidoscopy
How Z83.718 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 Z83.718.
- History›family›colonic polyps›inflammatory
- History›family›colonic polyps›specified, NEC
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z83.71. If Z83.718 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Z83.718
- Is Z83.718 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z83.718 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z83.718 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99).