Is Z87.51 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. Z87.51 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does Z87.51 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).

What cannot be coded together with Z87.51?

Z87.51 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.

Z87.51

Z87.51 — Personal history of pre-term labor

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z87.51 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for personal history of pre-term labor. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 — never code together

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

current pregnancy with history of pre-term labor (O09.21-)

Risk adjustment

Z87.51 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.

How Z87.51 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 Z87.51.

History›personal›preterm labor
History›personal›obstetric complications›pre-term labor

Related codes at this level

Codes that share Z87.5. If Z87.51 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Z87.59Personal history of other complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

Questions about Z87.51

Is Z87.51 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. Z87.51 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does Z87.51 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).
What cannot be coded together with Z87.51?: Z87.51 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.