2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z72.89

Other problems related to lifestyle

ICD-10-CM Code:
Z72.89
ICD-10 Code for:
Other problems related to lifestyle
Is Billable?
Yes - Valid for Submission
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Code Classification

  • Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
    (Z00–Z99)
    • Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
      (Z69-Z76)
      • Problems related to lifestyle
        (Z72)

Z72.89 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other problems related to lifestyle. 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:

  • Able to control drinking
  • Addiction to sun exposure
  • Addiction to sunbed use
  • Addictive behavior with potential to damage skin
  • Addictive behavior with potential to damage skin
  • Admits alcohol use
  • Alcohol intake - finding
  • Alcohol intake - finding
  • Alcohol intake exceeds recommended daily limit
  • Ashamed of drinking
  • Assumption of new identity
  • Attitude to drinking - finding
  • Attitude to drinking - finding
  • Attitude to drinking - finding
  • Attitude to drinking - finding
  • Behavioral tolerance to alcohol
  • Current drinker
  • Daily drinker
  • Decreased alcohol consumption
  • Difficulty getting up after drinking
  • Disturbance in life pattern
  • Disturbance in life pattern
  • Disturbance in life pattern
  • Disturbance in life pattern
  • Disturbance in life pattern associated with recreation
  • Disturbance in life pattern associated with travel
  • Disturbance in life pattern associated with work
  • Drink intake - finding
  • Drink intake - finding
  • Drinker of hard liquor
  • Drinking bout
  • Drinking day
  • Drinking episode
  • Drinking session
  • Drinking takes priority over family obligations
  • Drinking takes priority over financial obligations
  • Drinking takes priority over social obligations
  • Drinks alcohol evenly through week
  • Drinks alcohol unevenly through week
  • Drinks alcoholic cider
  • Drinks alone
  • Drinks at home
  • Drinks at hotels
  • Drinks at night clubs
  • Drinks at other people's homes
  • Drinks at restaurants
  • Drinks at work
  • Drinks in company
  • Drinks in licensed premises
  • Drinks in morning to get rid of hangover
  • Drinks in public houses
  • Drinks in public places
  • Drinks on empty stomach
  • Drinks wine
  • Drinks with acquaintances
  • Drinks with business associates
  • Drinks with children
  • Drinks with family
  • Drinks with friends
  • Drinks with spouse
  • Drinks with strangers
  • Drinks with work colleagues
  • Electronic cigarette user
  • Ex-electronic cigarette user for less than 1 year
  • Ex-electronic cigarette user for more than 1 year
  • Exercise above recommended level
  • Fairly heavy drinker
  • Feels afraid of being an alcoholic
  • Feels drinking is out of control
  • Feels effect of alcohol at work
  • Feels should cut down drinking
  • Finding of quantity of drinking
  • Finding related to ability to control drinking
  • Finding related to ability to control drinking
  • Finding related to ability to control drinking
  • Finding related to ability to control drinking
  • Finding related to ability to control drinking
  • Finding related to ability to control drinking
  • Habitual drinker
  • Has no stratagem to control drinking
  • Heavy drinking session
  • HIV risk lifestyle
  • Lifestyle
  • Light drinker
  • Light drinker - 1-2u/day
  • Makes rules about drinking
  • Moderate drinker
  • Moderate drinker - 3-6u/day
  • Nicotine-filled electronic cigarette user
  • Non-nicotine-filled electronic cigarette user
  • Occasional drinker
  • Park drinker
  • Pattern of alcohol consumption through week - finding
  • Pattern of alcohol consumption through week - finding
  • Pattern of alcohol consumption through week - finding
  • Pattern of alcohol consumption through week - finding
  • Pattern of drinking through day - finding
  • Persistent effect of alcohol
  • Persistent effect of alcohol
  • Physical tolerance to alcohol
  • Problem drinker
  • Psychological tolerance to alcohol
  • Reverse tolerance to alcohol
  • Risk activity involvement
  • Salience of drink-related activities
  • Secret drinker
  • Self-injurious behavior
  • Street drinker
  • Tolerance to alcohol - finding
  • Tolerance to alcohol - finding
  • Tolerance to alcohol - finding
  • Tolerance to alcohol - finding
  • Trivial drinker - <1u/day
  • Trying to give up using electronic cigarette
  • Unable to abstain from drinking
  • Unable to control drinking
  • Unable to control drinking once started
  • Unable to control spontaneous drinking bouts
  • Unable to stop drinking before intoxication
  • Undue priority given to drink-related activities
  • Unknown risk of deliberate self harm
  • Use of stratagems to control drinking - finding
  • Use of stratagems to control drinking - finding
  • Use of stratagems to control drinking - finding
  • Uses stratagems to control drinking
  • Very heavy drinker
  • Very heavy drinker - greater than 9 units/day
  • Weekend drinker

Clinical Classification

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.
  • Occasional Drinker

    an individual who drinks from time to time, but generally less than once per week.
  • Daily Drinker

    an individual who drinks one or more alcoholic beverages each day.

Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries

The following annotation back-references are applicable to this diagnosis code. The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10-CM codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with coding notes and guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more.


Inclusion Terms

Inclusion Terms
These terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
  • Self-damaging behavior

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).

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)

Z72.89 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 IndicatorReason for CodeCMS will pay the CC/MCC DRG?
YDiagnosis was present at time of inpatient admission.YES
NDiagnosis was not present at time of inpatient admission.NO
UDocumentation insufficient to determine if the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission.NO
WClinically undetermined - unable to clinically determine whether the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission.YES
1Unreported/Not used - Exempt from POA reporting. NO

Convert Z72.89 to ICD-9-CM

  • ICD-9-CM Code: V69.8 - Oth prblms rltd lfstyle
    Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.

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.