ICD Code Z71.6

ICD code Z71.6 is an encounter for the provision of tobacco abuse counseling.

1. Patient encounter is solely for dietary counseling and surveillance

2. No acute illness, injury, or specific disease is being treated during the visit

3. Patient requires assessment or guidance related to nutrition, diet, or eating habits

4. Visit may involve education on healthy eating, weight management, or disease prevention through diet

5. Documentation reflects that the primary reason for the encounter is dietary advice or monitoring

Relevant CPT codes that may be used to treat ICD code Z71.6 include:

- 99401 (Preventive medicine counseling and/or risk factor reduction intervention, individual, approximately 15 minutes)

- 99402 (approximately 30 minutes)

- 99403 (approximately 45 minutes)

- 99404 (approximately 60 minutes)

- 99406 (Smoking and tobacco use cessation counseling visit, intermediate, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes)

- 99407 (intensive, greater than 10 minutes)

- 96156 (Health behavior assessment or re-assessment)

- 96158 (Health behavior intervention, individual, face-to-face, initial 30 minutes)

- 96159 (each additional 15 minutes)

- 96164 (Health behavior intervention, group, initial 30 minutes)

- 96165 (each additional 15 minutes)

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