Z59.86

Z59.86: Financial insecurity

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Z59.86 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for financial insecurity. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist

The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.

extreme poverty (Z59.5)
low income (Z59.6)
material hardship, not elsewhere classified (Z59.87)

Inclusion terms

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

Burdensome debt
Economic strain
Financial strain
Money problems
Running out of money
Unable to make ends meet

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z59.86

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

deletedFY2024-FY2027
Financial insecurity

Code to one of these instead Z59.86

3 child codes. Green means billable.