Is Z63.31 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. Z63.31 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does Z63.31 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).

What cannot be coded together with Z63.31?

Z63.31 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above Z63.31 (Z63.3) and apply to it just the same.

Z63.31

Z63.31 — Absence of family member due to military deployment

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z63.31 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for absence of family member due to military deployment. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 — never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

family disruption due to return of family member from military deployment (Z63.71)

Inclusion terms

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

Individual or family affected by other family member being on military deployment

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Z63.31

These are not written on Z63.31, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing Z63.31 with anything listed here is a denial.

Written on Z63.3 — Absence of family member

absence of family member due to disappearance and death (Z63.4)
absence of family member due to separation and divorce (Z63.5)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z63.31

Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of Z63.31, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.

Written on Z63 — Other problems related to primary support group, including family circumstances

maltreatment syndrome (T74.-, T76)
parent-child problems (Z62.-)
problems related to negative life events in childhood (Z62.-)
problems related to upbringing (Z62.-)

Risk adjustment

Z63.31 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 Z63.31 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 Z63.31.

Disruption›family›due to›absence of family member due to military deployment

Code history

Z63.31 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share Z63.3. If Z63.31 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Z63.32Other absence of family member

Questions about Z63.31

Is Z63.31 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. Z63.31 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does Z63.31 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).
What cannot be coded together with Z63.31?: Z63.31 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above Z63.31 (Z63.3) and apply to it just the same.