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Z59.9

Problem related to housing and economic circumstances, unspecified

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Problem related to housing and economic circumstances, unspecified

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.-)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
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
Z59.4 Lack of adequate food Not billable
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