Diagnosis Code

Z71.6 TOBACCO ABUSE COUNSELING


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: Z71.6

Short Description: Tobacco abuse counseling

Long Description: Tobacco abuse counseling

The code Z71.6 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00–Z99)
    • Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z69-Z76)
      • Persons encntr health serv for oth cnsl and med advice, NEC (Z71)
        • Z71.6 Tobacco abuse counseling

This code is valid for unacceptable principal diagnosis

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code Z71.6 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

    Crosswalk Information

    ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
    Z71.6 Right Arrow V65.42 Counslng sbstn use abuse

    This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

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