Counseling, unspecified
Billable / specificPOA exempt
Z71.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Encounter for medical advice NOS
Includes (from Z71)
- Note: Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
- Note: (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
- Note: (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Also known as
- Encounter for medical advice NOS
- Consultation, without complaint or sickness
- Counseling
- Counseling, medical
Parent code
- Z71Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classifiedHeader
Related codes
- Z71.0Person encountering health services to consult on behalf of another personBillable
- Z71.1Person with feared health complaint in whom no diagnosis is madeBillable
- Z71.2Person consulting for explanation of examination or test findingsBillable
- Z71.3Dietary counseling and surveillanceBillable
- Z71.4Alcohol abuse counseling and surveillanceHeader
- Z71.5Drug abuse counseling and surveillanceHeader
- Z71.6Tobacco abuse counselingBillable
- Z71.7Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] counselingBillable
- Z71.8Other specified counselingHeader