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Z59.81

Z59.81: Housing instability, housed

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Z59.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for housing instability, housed. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

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

  • Foreclosure on home loan
  • Past due on rent or mortgage
  • Unwanted multiple moves in the last 12 months

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z59.81

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.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead Z59.81

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under Z59.8

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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