Home Health ICD-9/ICD-10 Alert

Add Tobacco Use Codes with HTN in ICD-10

Published on Fri Jan 10, 2014

When coding for hypertension in ICD-10, no matter which category you select, you are instructed to list an additional code when reporting hypertensive disease category codes I10 to I15.- to indicate patients for whom the following is true:

Exposure to tobacco smoke (Z77.22);
History of tobacco use (Z87.891);
Occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31); or
Tobacco use (Z72.0).

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