ICD-10-CM › Z00-Z99 › Z69-Z76 › Z72.82 Problems related to sleep › Z72.823

Z72.823

Risk of suffocation (smothering) under another while sleeping

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2023 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2023 to now.

  1. FY2023 Added to the code set Risk of suffocation (smothering) under another while sleeping

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 Z72 Problems related to lifestyle

Excludes2 - not included here

  • problems related to life-management difficulty (Z73.-)
  • problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)

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
Z72.820 Sleep deprivation Valid
Z72.821 Inadequate sleep hygiene Valid