Z72.5

High risk sexual behavior

Non-billable header

Z72.5 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Promiscuity

Includes (from Z72)

  • 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.

Excludes1

Not coded here — never report together with this code.

  • paraphilias (F65)

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • problems related to life-management difficulty (Z73.-) (from Z72)
  • problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65) (from Z72)

Also known as

  • Promiscuity

Parent code

  • Z72Problems related to lifestyleHeader

More specific codes Z72.5

  • Z72.51High risk heterosexual behaviorBillable
  • Z72.52High risk homosexual behaviorBillable
  • Z72.53High risk bisexual behaviorBillable

Related codes

  • Z72.0Tobacco useBillable
  • Z72.3Lack of physical exerciseBillable
  • Z72.4Inappropriate diet and eating habitsBillable
  • Z72.6Gambling and bettingBillable
  • Z72.8Other problems related to lifestyleHeader
  • Z72.9Problem related to lifestyle, unspecifiedBillable

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