Alphabetic Index FY2027

Z87

Personal history of other diseases and conditions

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.

Z87 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code category for personal history of other diseases and conditions. 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 Z87.0 Personal history of diseases of the respiratory system, Z87.1 Personal history of diseases of the digestive system, Z87.2 Personal history of diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, Z87.3 Personal history of diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue and 5 more. Its coding notes include a Code first instruction and 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 first

If the underlying condition listed here is present and known, sequence it first.

This code
  • any follow-up examination after treatment (Z09)

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 Z87 9