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F17

Non-Billable (Header)

Nicotine dependence

Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together

  • history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
  • tobacco use NOS (Z72.0)

Excludes 2 — Not included here, may code separately

  • tobacco use (smoking) during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O99.33-)
  • toxic effect of nicotine (T65.2-)

Child Codes

F17.2Nicotine dependence

Code Hierarchy

└F17Nicotine dependence
└F17Nicotine dependence

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