Z71.85
Encounter for immunization safety counseling
Z71.85 (also written Z7185) is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for encounter for immunization safety counseling. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. It is one of the 19 codes in category Z71 (Persons encountering health services for other counseling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified). The Alphabetic Index lists it under 2 entries. Its coding notes include a Code also instruction, 1 Excludes1 entry and 3 Excludes2 entries.
Code also
Two codes may be needed to describe the condition. This note gives no sequencing order.
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
- encounter for health counseling related to travel (Z71.84)
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Inclusion terms
Conditions classified to this code.
- Encounter for vaccine product safety counseling
Notes
Also from chapter/block level (3 notes)
- Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
- (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
- (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.
Alphabetic Index terms
Terms the official Alphabetic Index lists for this code. 2 entries