2025
ICD-10-CM
Diagnosis
Code

Z71.0 Person encountering health services to consult on behalf of another person

  • Billable
  • POA Exempt
  • 2016–2025

Z71.0 is a billable/specific and POA-exempt diagnosis code from the 2025 ICD-10-CM used to classify the following condition: Person encountering health services to consult on behalf of another person.

Inclusion term

  • Person encountering health services to seek advice or treatment for non-attending third party

Type 2 excludes

  • Anxiety (normal) about sick person in family (Z63.7)

  • Expectant (adoptive) parent(s) pre-birth pediatrician visit (Z76.81)

Versions

  1. 2025

    No changes

  2. 2024

    No changes

  3. 2023

    No changes

  4. 2022

    No changes

  5. 2021

    No changes

  6. 2020

    No changes

  7. 2019

    No changes

  8. 2018

    No changes

  9. 2017

    Code changed

    • POA exempt status

        • false
        • true

  10. 2016

    New code