Z59.11

Z59.11: Inadequate housing environmental temperature

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z59.11 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for inadequate housing environmental temperature. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Z59.11 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Inclusion terms

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

Lack of air conditioning
Lack of heating

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z59.11

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

Written on Z59.1: Inadequate housing

problems related to the natural and physical environment (Z77.1-)

Written on Z59: Problems related to housing and economic circumstances

problems related to upbringing (Z62.-)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Inadequate, inadequacy›environment, household
Lack of›air conditioning
Lack of›heating
Inadequate, inadequacy›housing›environmental temperature
Inadequate, inadequacy›housing›heating
Person›living›without›adequate housing›air conditioning
Person›living›without›adequate housing›environmental temperature
Person›living›without›adequate housing›heating

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z59.1