Z62.820
Z62.820 — Parent-biological child conflict
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z62.820 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for parent-biological child conflict. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Parent-child problem NOS
Risk adjustment
Z62.820 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How Z62.820 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to Z62.820.
- Conflict›parent-child
- Conflict›parent-child›parent-biological child
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z62.82. If Z62.820 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Z62.820
- Is Z62.820 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z62.820 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z62.820 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65).