Z59.48
Z59.48: Other specified lack of adequate food
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z59.48 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified lack of adequate food. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Z59.48 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Inadequate food
- Lack of food
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z59.48
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on Z59.4: Lack of adequate food
Other codes that can never be billed with Z59.48
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- Z72.4Inappropriate diet and eating habits
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Inadequate, inadequacy›food NEC(supply)
- Lack of›food
- Lack of›adequate›food
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.