Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified (Z71)
Clinical Information
Counseling - The giving of advice and assistance to individuals with educational or personal problems.
Directive Counseling - Counseling during which a professional plays an active role in a client's or patient's decision making by offering advice, guidance, and/or recommendations.
Distance Counseling - Counseling conducted via electronic or other non-face-to-face interactions.
Genetic Counseling - An educational process that provides information and advice to individuals or families about a genetic condition that may affect them. The purpose is to help individuals make informed decisions about marriage, reproduction, and other health management issues based on information about the genetic disease, the available diagnostic tests, and management programs. Psychosocial support is usually offered.
Sex Counseling - Advice and support given to individuals to help them understand and resolve their sexual adjustment problems. It excludes treatment for PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDERS or PSYCHOSEXUAL DYSFUNCTION.
Vocational Guidance - Systematic efforts to assist individuals in selecting an occupation or suitable employment on the basis of aptitude, education, etc.
Instructional Notations
Type 2 Excludes
A type 2 excludes note represents "Not included here". An excludes2 note indicates that the condition excluded is not part of the condition represented by the code, but a patient may have both conditions at the same time. When an Excludes2 note appears under a code, it is acceptable to use both the code and the excluded code together, when appropriate.
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00–Z99)
Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z69-Z76)
Z71 Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified
- Z71.0 Person encountering health services to consult on behalf of another person
- Z71.1 Person with feared health complaint in whom no diagnosis is made
- Z71.2 Person consulting for explanation of examination or test findings
- Z71.3 Dietary counseling and surveillance
Z71.4 Alcohol abuse counseling and surveillance
- Z71.41 Alcohol abuse counseling and surveillance of alcoholic
- Z71.42 Counseling for family member of alcoholic
Z71.5 Drug abuse counseling and surveillance
- Z71.51 Drug abuse counseling and surveillance of drug abuser
- Z71.52 Counseling for family member of drug abuser
- Z71.6 Tobacco abuse counseling
- 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
- Z71.84 Encounter for health counseling related to travel
- Z71.85 Encounter for immunization safety counseling
- Z71.87 Encounter for pediatric-to-adult transition counseling
- Z71.88 Encounter for counseling for socioeconomic factors
- Z71.89 Other specified counseling
- Z71.9 Counseling, unspecified
Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified (Z71)