Alphabetic Index FY2027

Z80

Family history of primary malignant neoplasm

FY2027Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services/Z77–Z99 Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status

Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.

Z80 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code category for family history of primary malignant neoplasm. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are Z80.0 Family history of malignant neoplasm of digestive organs; Z80.1 Family history of malignant neoplasm of trachea, bronchus and lung; Z80.2 Family history of malignant neoplasm of other respiratory and intrathoracic organs; Z80.3 Family history of malignant neoplasm of breast and 6 more. Its coding notes include a Code also instruction.

Guidelines tip

From the FY2027 Official Guidelines. ICD10Ref adds no rules of its own.

History codes can go on any record. The reason for the encounter is sequenced first, with history codes as additional diagnoses.

Guidelines I.C.21.c.4Personal and family history Z codesRead the official text

Code also

Two codes may be needed to describe the condition. This note gives no sequencing order.

Also from chapter/block level (1 note)
Inherited from Z77–Z99 Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status
  • any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)

Notes

Also from chapter/block level (3 notes)
Inherited from Chapter 21 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
  • 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.

More specific codes under Z80 10