Z62.22

Z62.22: Institutional upbringing

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z62.22 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for institutional upbringing. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Z62.22 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Code also

Both codes may be needed to describe the encounter fully. Sequencing depends on the reason for the visit.

, if applicable, child in welfare custody (Z62.21)

Inclusion terms

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

Child living in group home
Child living in orphanage

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z62.22

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Z62.2: Upbringing away from parents

problems with boarding school (Z59.3)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z62.22

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

Written on Z62: Problems related to upbringing

maltreatment syndrome (T74.-)
problems related to housing and economic circumstances (Z59.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with Z62.22

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

Z59.3Problems related to living in residential institution

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Institutionalization, affecting child
Upbringing, institutional
Problem›institutionalization, affecting child
Upbringing, institutional›in orphanage or group home
Problem›child›living in›group home
Problem›child›living in›orphanage

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z62.2