Answer: CPT® defines “family history” as a review of medical events in the patient’s family that includes significant information about: Typically, family history is more along the lines of heart disease, diabetes, etc. Immediate contacts could also be co-workers, roommates, classmates, or anyone the patient has come in contact with that had a medical impact on their presenting problem, which sounds more like a social history. Exercise caution about using the phrase “no sick contacts” as an overarching option in a medical record, particularly as a potential macro in an electronic medical record (EMR).