Z55.5
Z55.5: Less than a high school diploma
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z55.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for less than a high school diploma. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Z55.5 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- No general equivalence degree (GED)
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Less than a high school diploma
- Educational handicap›less than a high school diploma
- Educational handicap›no general equivalence degree(GED)
- No›general equivalence degree(GED)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under Z55
- Z55.0Illiteracy and low-level literacy
- Z55.1Schooling unavailable and unattainable
- Z55.2Failed school examinations
- Z55.3Underachievement in school
- Z55.4Educational maladjustment and discord with teachers and classmates
- Z55.6Problems related to health literacy
- Z55.8Other problems related to education and literacy
- Z55.9Problems related to education and literacy, unspecified