2025
ICD-10-CM
Diagnosis
Code

Z72.4 Inappropriate diet and eating habits

  • Billable
  • POA Exempt
  • 2016–2025

Z72.4 is a billable/specific and POA-exempt diagnosis code from the 2025 ICD-10-CM used to classify the following condition: Inappropriate diet and eating habits.

Type 1 excludes

  • Behavioral eating disorders of infancy or childhood (F98.2.-F98.3)

  • Eating disorders (F50.-)

  • Lack of adequate food (Z59.48)

  • Malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies (E40-E64)

Versions

  1. 2025

    No changes

  2. 2024

    No changes

  3. 2023

    No changes

  4. 2022

    Code changed

    • Type 1 excludes

        • behavioral eating disorders of infancy or childhood (F98.2.-F98.3)
        • eating disorders (F50.-)
        • lack of adequate food (Z59.4)
        • malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies (E40-E64)
        • behavioral eating disorders of infancy or childhood (F98.2.-F98.3)
        • eating disorders (F50.-)
        • lack of adequate food (Z59.48)
        • malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies (E40-E64)
  5. 2021

    No changes

  6. 2020

    No changes

  7. 2019

    No changes

  8. 2018

    No changes

  9. 2017

    No changes

  10. 2016

    New code