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Z72.0

Billable

Tobacco use

This code does not map to an HCC category in any model (V28, V24, ESRD, RxHCC).

What This Code Means

A diagnosis code indicating that a patient currently uses tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, pipes, or smokeless tobacco.

Coding Tips

  • •Document the type of tobacco use (cigarette, cigar, pipe, chewing tobacco, snuff) and frequency when possible
  • •This is a status code; use it to identify tobacco use as a risk factor or for counseling documentation purposes

Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together

  • history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
  • nicotine dependence (F17.2-)
  • tobacco dependence (F17.2-)
  • tobacco use during pregnancy (O99.33-)

Code Hierarchy

└Z72Problems related to lifestyle└Z72.0Tobacco use
└Z72.0Tobacco use

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