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Z70 ICD-10-CA category: Counselling related to sexual attitude, behaviour and orientation

Z70 isn’t a code on its own. Choose one of the 6 codes beneath it, the one the documentation supports.

Official description

Z70

Counselling related to sexual attitude, behaviour and orientation

ICD-10-CA · Canada

Codes in Z70

Z70 isn’t a code on its own. Open the code that matches what the note documents.

Z70.0Counselling related to sexual attitudeZ70.1Counselling related to patient's sexual behaviour and orientationZ70.2Counselling related to sexual behaviour and orientation of third partyZ70.3Counselling related to combined concerns regarding sexual attitude, behaviour and orientationZ70.8Other sex counsellingZ70.9Sex counselling, unspecified

Notes for Z70

As CIHI prints them, with any note Z70 takes from the headings above it.

Excludes

Conditions classified elsewhere.

  • Contraceptive or procreative counselling (Z30-Z31)

Note

  • This chapter should not be used for international comparison or for primary mortality coding.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 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. Such factors may be elicited during population surveys, when the person may or may not be currently sick, or be recorded as an additional factor to be borne in mind when the person is receiving care for some illness or injury.From Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)

Where Z70 sits

  1. 1ChapterChapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
  2. 2Block Z70-Z76Persons encountering health services in other circumstances
  3. 3Category Z70Counselling related to sexual attitude, behaviour and orientation

Source and release

Data release
ICD-10-CA · FY 2026–2027
Effective date
Apr 1, 2026
Publisher
CIHI

This page is built from the ICD-10-CA catalog that Vero Codes reads when it suggests codes: Canadian Institute for Health Information’s FY 2026–2027 release, imported from the publisher’s file and checked against it. The description, notes and structured data come from the same record.

See Z70 in the CIHI source

Frequently asked questions

Is Z70 a valid ICD-10-CA code?

No. Z70 (Counselling related to sexual attitude, behaviour and orientation) is a category heading in CIHI’s ICD-10-CA FY 2026–2027 release. It holds 6 codes; record the one the documentation supports.

Where is Z70 in ICD-10-CA?

Z70 sits under Z70-Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances, within Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99).

What coding notes apply to Z70?

ICD-10-CA lists Excludes, Note notes for Z70, including those from the headings it sits under. They are listed on this page with where each one comes from.

Which ICD-10-CA release does this page use?

It uses CIHI’s FY 2026–2027 release, in effect from Apr 1, 2026 to Mar 31, 2027. It is a reference: confirm the code against the current list and the payer’s rules before you submit it.

Codes beside Z70

Z71Persons encountering health services for other counselling and medical advice, not elsewhere classifiedZ72Problems related to lifestyleZ73Problems related to life-management difficultyZ74Problems related to care-provider dependencyZ75Problems related to medical facilities and other health careZ76Persons encountering health services in other circumstances