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Z58.6

Z58.6: Inadequate drinking-water supply

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z58.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for inadequate drinking-water supply. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist

The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.

  • deprivation of water (T73.1)

Inclusion terms

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

  • Lack of safe drinking water

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z58.6

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

Written on Z58: Problems related to physical environment

  • occupational exposure (Z57.-)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Inadequate, inadequacy›drinking-water supply
  • Lack of›safe drinking water
  • Lack of›water›safe drinking
  • Water›lack of›safe drinking

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z58

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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