Z59.5

Z59.5: Extreme poverty

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z59.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for extreme poverty. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z59.5

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

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

Poverty NEC›extreme

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z59