2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z72.3
Lack of physical exercise
- ICD-10-CM Code:
- Z72.3
- ICD-10 Code for:
- Lack of physical exercise
- Is Billable?
- Yes - Valid for Submission
- Code Navigator:
Z72.3 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of lack of physical exercise. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024. The code is exempt from present on admission (POA) reporting for inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals.
This code describes a circumstance which influences the patient's health status but not a current illness or injury. The code is unacceptable as a principal diagnosis.
Approximate Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Aerobic exercise zero times a week
- Anaerobic exercise zero times a week
- Avoids even trivial exercise
- Difficulty following postpartum exercise routine
- Difficulty following prenatal exercise routine
- Exercise below recommended level
- Exercise physically impossible
- Gets little exercise
- Gets no exercise
- Lack of exercise
- Lifestyle
- Prenatal finding
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Takes inadequate exercise
Clinical Classification
Clinical Category is Lifestyle/life management factors
- CCSR Category Code: FAC020
- Inpatient Default CCSR: X - Not applicable.
- Outpatient Default CCSR: Y - Yes, default outpatient assignment for principal diagnosis or first-listed diagnosis.
Clinical Information
Achieve Calmer, More Peaceful, or Healthier Lifestyle|Achieving a calmer, more peaceful or healthier lifestyle
a question about how often a person thought about achieving a calmer, more peaceful, or healthier lifestyle.Behavioral Disorder|Behavior-Related Disorder|Behavior-Related Problem|Behaviour-Related Disorder|Lifestyle-Related Condition|Lifestyle-Related Disorder|Lifestyle-Related Problem
a specific behavioral problem that occurs in persistent patterns and characteristic clusters and that causes clinically significant impairment.BLCS - Bladder Problems Restrict Overall Lifestyle|BLCS01-Bladder Restricted Lifestyle|BLCS01-Bladder Restricted Lifestyle|BLCS0104
bladder control scale (blcs) during the past 4 weeks, how much have bladder problems restricted your overall lifestyle?BWCS - Bowel Problems Restrict Overall Lifestyle|BWCS01-Bowels Restricted Lifestyle|BWCS01-Bowels Restricted Lifestyle|BWCS0105
bowel control scale (bwcs) during the past 4 weeks, how much have bowel problems restricted your overall lifestyle?Comprehensive Lifestyle Intervention Program|CLIP
an intervention program that provides targeted health education and promotes regular physical activity, good nutrition, stress management, and healthy social habits.Lifestyle
a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes.Lifestyle and Disease Prevention|Lifestyle and Disease Prevention (with ODP)
major category of complementary and alternative medicine. this category deals with theories and practices designed to prevent the development of illness, identify and treat risk factors, or support of healing and recovery processes. it is concerned with integrated approaches for the prevention and management of chronic disease-in-general (dig) or the common determinants of chronic disease.Lifestyle Counseling
an educational intervention designed to lower the risks of early death or serious illness by addressing health behaviors that include nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress, tobacco use, and alcohol use.Lifestyle Factors, Unspecified
the consideration of unspecified lifestyle factors as variables in disease incident, transmission, and control.Lifestyle Therapy
therapy dealing with lifestyle management and includes: behavioral and dietary modifications, exercise, stress management, and addiction control. this therapy must be used as major adjunct to "standard care" or be applied as alternative treatment to conventional medicine practices.Physical Activity Lifestyle|PHYACLFS
a description of the subject's lifestyle with respect to physical activity.Prognostic Features Used for Tumor Prognosis|Prognostic/Predictive/Lifestyle Features Used for Tumor Prognosis or Responsiveness to Treatment
a form section header about prognostic features used for tumor prognosis.Sedentary Lifestyle|Sedentary Behavior
a type of lifestyle that lacks physical exercise, characterized by sitting, reading, watching television or using a computer for much of the day without vigorous physical exertion.Treatment Plan Cannot Succeed if in Conflict with Patient's Lifestyle or Values|A treatment plan cannot succeed if it is in conflict with a patient's lifestyle or values
a question about whether a treatment plan cannot succeed if it is in conflict with a patient's lifestyle or values.
Index to Diseases and Injuries References
The following annotation back-references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index. The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10-CM code(s).
- - Lack of
- - physical exercise - Z72.3
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10-CM Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Unacceptable principal diagnosis - There are selected codes that describe a circumstance which influences an individual's health status but not a current illness or injury, or codes that are not specific manifestations but may be due to an underlying cause. These codes are considered unacceptable as a principal diagnosis.
Present on Admission (POA)
Z72.3 is exempt from POA reporting - The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement. Review other POA exempt codes here.
CMS POA Indicator Options and Definitions
| POA Indicator | Reason for Code | CMS will pay the CC/MCC DRG? |
|---|---|---|
| Y | Diagnosis was present at time of inpatient admission. | YES |
| N | Diagnosis was not present at time of inpatient admission. | NO |
| U | Documentation insufficient to determine if the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission. | NO |
| W | Clinically undetermined - unable to clinically determine whether the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission. | YES |
| 1 | Unreported/Not used - Exempt from POA reporting. | NO |
Convert Z72.3 to ICD-9-CM
- ICD-9-CM Code: V69.0 - Lack of physical exercse
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Code History
- FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
- FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
- FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.