Z71.5
Drug abuse counseling and surveillance
- Release
- FY 2027
- Effective
Hierarchy
Where Z71.5 sits in the official hierarchy. Each level is the code it is classified under.
- Z71 Parent Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified
- Z71.5 This code Drug abuse counseling and surveillance
Official Coding Notes
Reproduced verbatim from the FY 2027 ICD-10-CM files. Notes labelled as inherited are declared on a parent code and apply here too.
Excludes2
contraceptive or procreation counseling (Z30-Z31)
Inherited from Z71 — Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified
Use Additional Code
code for drug abuse or dependence (F11-F16, F18-F19)
More Specific Codes
2 codes under Z71.5
Version History
How Z71.5 appears in each release imported from the official files, newest first.
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FY 2027 Effective
CurrentDrug abuse counseling and surveillance
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FY 2026 Effective
UnchangedDrug abuse counseling and surveillance
Related Codes
Other codes under Z71
- Z71.0 Person encountering health services to consult on behalf of another person Billable
- Z71.1 Person with feared health complaint in whom no diagnosis is made Billable
- Z71.2 Person consulting for explanation of examination or test findings Billable
- Z71.3 Dietary counseling and surveillance Billable
- Z71.4 Alcohol abuse counseling and surveillance
- Z71.6 Tobacco abuse counseling Billable
- Z71.7 Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] counseling Billable
- Z71.8 Other specified counseling
- Z71.9 Counseling, unspecified Billable
Data Source
Code information on this page is derived from the FY 2027 ICD-10-CM files published by CDC NCHS and CMS.
- Release
- FY 2027
- Effective
- Source file
- icd10cm-code-descriptions-2027.zip
Official ICD-10-CM source files (opens in a new tab)
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