Z59.72

Z59.72: Insufficient welfare support

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z59.72 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for insufficient welfare support. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

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

Inadequate welfare support

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z59.72

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

Inadequate, inadequacy›welfare support
Insufficiency, insufficient›welfare support

Code history

addedFY2024-FY2027
Insufficient welfare support

Other codes under Z59.7

Z59.71Insufficient health insurance coverage