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.
Risk adjustment
Z59.5 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How Z59.5 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to Z59.5.
- Poverty NEC›extreme
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z59. If Z59.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Z59.0Homelessness
- Z59.1Inadequate housing
- Z59.2Discord with neighbors, lodgers and landlord
- Z59.3Problems related to living in residential institution
- Z59.4Lack of adequate food
- Z59.6Low income
- Z59.7Insufficient social insurance and welfare support
- Z59.8Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances
- Z59.9Problem related to housing and economic circumstances, unspecified
Questions about Z59.5
- Is Z59.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z59.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z59.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65).