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FY2027

F17Nicotine dependence

Not billable

Is F17 billable?

No — F17 is a non-billable header code. F17 groups more specific codes and cannot be submitted on a claim. A valid ICD-10-CM code must be reported at the highest level of specificity available in its branch. Select one of the 20 billable codes beneath F17.

Billable codes under this header

F17 at a glance

CodeF17
DescriptionNicotine dependence
BillableNo — header code
Code setICD-10-CM FY2027
Valid for encountersOctober 1, 2026 – September 30, 2027

Excludes1 — never code together

The conditions below can never be reported together with F17 on the same claim. An Excludes1 note means the two conditions cannot occur in the same patient, so reporting both is a coding error.

  • history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
  • tobacco use NOS (Z72.0)

Excludes2 — not included here

The conditions below are not part of F17, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, F17 and the excluded code may both be reported.

  • tobacco use (smoking) during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O99.33-)
  • toxic effect of nicotine (T65.2-)

Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from Chapter 5

The conditions below are not part of F17, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, F17 and the excluded code may both be reported.

  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)

What codes fall under F17? (1)

How long has F17 existed?

F17 has been in ICD-10-CM since at least FY2016, the earliest fiscal year on record here.

Derived from the official order files for FY2016–FY2026. FY2017 and FY2020 publish no order file, so those years are not covered.

Which codes are confused with F17?

ICD-10-CM declares these codes mutually exclusive with F17 — exactly one of each pair can be correct for a given encounter.