Z56.5

Z56.5: Uncongenial work environment

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z56.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for uncongenial work environment. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Z56.5 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Difficult conditions at work

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z56.5

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on Z56: Problems related to employment and unemployment

occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-)
problems related to housing and economic circumstances (Z59.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with Z56.5

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

Z73.3Stress, not elsewhere classified

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Uncongenial work
Effect, adverse›psychosocial, of work environment
Effect, adverse›work environment
Difficult, difficulty›work›conditions NEC
Problem›employment›environment
Unsatisfactory›surroundings›work

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z56