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ICD-10-CM code · FY2027

Z79.1 Long term (current) use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAID)

BillableValid for claims as a specific diagnosis code

About Z79.1

Code
Z79.1
Billable
Yes
Short description
Long term (current) use of non-steroidal non-inflam (NSAID)
Category
Z79 Long term (current) drug therapy
Block
Z77-Z99 Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status
Chapter
21 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Code set
FY2027, October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027

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Coding notes for Z79.1

Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.

  • long term (current) use of aspirin (Z79.82)

Also applies, from Z79 Long term (current) drug therapy

Includes Conditions this code covers.

  • long term (current) drug use for prophylactic purposes

Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.

  • drug abuse and dependence (F11-F19)
  • drug use complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (O99.32-)

Code also Another code may be needed as well; the order depends on the encounter.

  • any therapeutic drug level monitoring (Z51.81)
Block Z77-Z99 notes (apply to every code in it)

Code also Another code may be needed as well; the order depends on the encounter.

  • any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)
Chapter 21 notes (apply to every code in it)

Note

  • 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.

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