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  2. Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
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  3. Z69-Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
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  4. Z72- Problems related to lifestyle
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2018 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z72.4

Inappropriate diet and eating habits

Type 1 Excludes
Type 1 Excludes Help
A type 1 excludes note is a pure excludes. It means "not coded here". A type 1 excludes note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as Z72.4. A type 1 excludes note is for used for when two conditions cannot occur together, such as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition.
  • behavioral eating disorders of infancy or childhood (
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F98.2

    Other feeding disorders of infancy and childhood

      2016 2017 2018 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
    Type 1 Excludes
    • feeding difficulties (R63.3)
    Type 2 Excludes
    • anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders (F50.-)
    • feeding problems of newborn (P92.-)
    • pica of infancy or childhood (F98.3)
    F98.2.-
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F98.3

    Pica of infancy and childhood

      2016 2017 2018 Billable/Specific Code
    F98.3
    )
  • eating disorders (
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code F50
    • F50 Eating disorders
      • F50.0 Anorexia nervosa
        • F50.00 …… unspecified
        • F50.01 …… restricting type
        • F50.02 …… binge eating/purging type
      • F50.2 Bulimia nervosa
      • F50.8 Other eating disorders
        • F50.81 Binge eating disorder
        • F50.82 Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
        • F50.89 Other specified eating disorder
      • F50.9 Eating disorder, unspecified
    F50.-
    )
  • lack of adequate food (
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z59.4

    Lack of adequate food and safe drinking water

      2016 2017 2018 Billable/Specific Code POA Exempt
    Applicable To
    • Inadequate drinking water supply
    Type 1 Excludes
    • effects of hunger (T73.0)
    • inappropriate diet or eating habits (Z72.4)
    • malnutrition (E40-E46)
    Z59.4
    )
  • malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies (
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code E40

    Kwashiorkor

      2016 2017 2018 Billable/Specific Code
    Applicable To
    • Severe malnutrition with nutritional edema with dyspigmentation of skin and hair
    Type 1 Excludes
    • marasmic kwashiorkor (E42)
    E40
    -
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code E64

    Sequelae of malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies

      2016 2017 2018 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
    Code First
    • condition resulting from (sequela) of malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies
    Note
    • This category is to be used to indicate conditions in categories E43, E44, E46, E50-E63 as the cause of sequelae, which are themselves classified elsewhere. The 'sequelae' include conditions specified as such; they also include the late effects of diseases classifiable to the above categories if the disease itself is no longer present
    E64
    )
The following code(s) above Z72.4 contain annotation back-references
Annotation Back-References
In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:
  • Applicable To annotations, or
  • Code Also annotations, or
  • Code First annotations, or
  • Excludes1 annotations, or
  • Excludes2 annotations, or
  • Includes annotations, or
  • Note annotations, or
  • Use Additional annotations
that may be applicable to Z72.4:
  • Z00-Z99
    2018 ICD-10-CM Range Z00-Z99

    Factors influencing health status and contact with health services

    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:
    • (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.
    • (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.
    Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
  • Z72
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z72

    Problems related to lifestyle

      2016 2017 2018 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
    Type 2 Excludes
    • problems related to life-management difficulty (Z73.-)
    • problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
    Problems related to lifestyle
Present On Admission
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"Present On Admission" is defined as present at the time the order for inpatient admission occurs — conditions that develop during an outpatient encounter, including emergency department, observation, or outpatient surgery, are considered POA.
 ICD-10-CM Z72.4 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v35.0):

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Code History
Code annotations containing back-references to Z72.4:

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to Z72.4:

ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To Z72.4
Z71.7 Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] counseling
Z71.8 Other specified counseling
Z71.81 Spiritual or religious counseling
Z71.82 Exercise counseling
Z71.83 Encounter for nonprocreative genetic counseling
Z71.89 Other specified counseling
Z71.9 Counseling, unspecified
Z72 Problems related to lifestyle
Z72.0 Tobacco use
Z72.3 Lack of physical exercise
Z72.4 Inappropriate diet and eating habits
Z72.5 High risk sexual behavior
Z72.51 High risk heterosexual behavior
Z72.52 High risk homosexual behavior
Z72.53 High risk bisexual behavior
Z72.6 Gambling and betting
Z72.8 Other problems related to lifestyle
Z72.81 Antisocial behavior
Z72.810 Child and adolescent antisocial behavior
Z72.811 Adult antisocial behavior
Z72.82 Problems related to sleep

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