ICD-10-CM Codes
Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Z69-Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
Z72- Problems related to lifestyle
2021 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z72.4

2021 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z72.4

Inappropriate diet and eating habits

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Billable/Specific Code

POA Exempt

Z72.4 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
The 2021 edition of ICD-10-CM Z72.4 became effective on October 1, 2020.
This is the American ICD-10-CM version of Z72.4 - other international versions of ICD-10 Z72.4 may differ.

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
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
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
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
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
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
2021 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
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.

Z72.4 is considered exempt from POA reporting.

ICD-10-CM Z72.4 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v38.0):

951 Other factors influencing health status

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Code History

2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change

Code annotations containing back-references to Z72.4:

Type 1 Excludes: Z59.4

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z59.4
Lack of adequate food and safe drinking water
Applicable To
- Inadequate drinking water supply
Type 1 Excludes
- effects of hunger (T73.0)
- inappropriate diet or eating habits (Z72.4)
- malnutrition (E40-E46)

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

Inadequate, inadequacy
- eating habits Z72.4
Inappropriate
- diet or eating habits Z72.4
Problem (with) (related to)
- life-style Z72.9
  ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z72.9
  Problem related to lifestyle, unspecified
  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Billable/Specific Code POA Exempt
  - inappropriate eating habits Z72.4

ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To Z72.4

Z71.8 Other specified counseling

Z71.81 Spiritual or religious counseling

Z71.82 Exercise counseling

Z71.83 Encounter for nonprocreative genetic counseling

Z71.84 Encounter for health counseling related to travel

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

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.

2021 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z72.4

Inappropriate diet and eating habits

Other feeding disorders of infancy and childhood

Pica of infancy and childhood

Lack of adequate food and safe drinking water

Kwashiorkor

Sequelae of malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies

Factors influencing health status and contact with health services

Problems related to lifestyle

Lack of adequate food and safe drinking water

Problem related to lifestyle, unspecified