Lack of adequate food

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

Billable FY2016 to FY2021, and a category header from FY2022.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

Z59.41 Food insecurity
Z59.48 Other specified lack of adequate food

Use instead:

Z58.6 Inadequate drinking-water supply stated for FY2021

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Lack of adequate food
FY2010 Draft description revised draft ~~Lack of adequate food~~ Lack of adequate food and safe drinking water
FY2022 Description revised ~~Lack of adequate food and safe drinking water~~ Lack of adequate food
FY2022 Stopped being billable

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from Z59 Problems related to housing and economic circumstances

Excludes2 - not included here

problems related to upbringing (Z62.-)

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
Z59.0	Homelessness	Not billable
Z59.1	Inadequate housing	Not billable
Z59.2	Discord with neighbors, lodgers and landlord	Valid
Z59.3	Problems related to living in residential institution	Valid
Z59.5	Extreme poverty	Valid
Z59.6	Low income	Valid
Z59.7	Insufficient social insurance and welfare support	Not billable
Z59.8	Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances	Not billable
Z59.9	Problem related to housing and economic circumstances, unspecified	Valid