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Z59.868

Z59.868: Other specified financial insecurity

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z59.868 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified financial insecurity. 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.

  • Bankruptcy

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z59.868

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

Written on Z59.86: Financial insecurity

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

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

  • Bankruptcy(anxiety concerning)
  • Debt, burdensome
  • Running out of money
  • Financial problem affecting care NOS›bankruptcy
  • Financial problem affecting care NOS›strain
  • Problem›money
  • Unable to›make ends meet
  • Problem›economic›strain

Code history

  • addedFY2024-FY2027

    Other specified financial insecurity

Other codes under Z59.86

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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