Z63.79
Z63.79 — Other stressful life events affecting family and household
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z63.79 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other stressful life events affecting family and household. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Anxiety (normal) about sick person in family
- Health problems within family
- Ill or disturbed family member
- Isolated family
Risk adjustment
Z63.79 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 Z63.79 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 Z63.79.
- Isolation, isolated›family
- Problem›presence of sick or disabled person in family or household
- Sick›or handicapped person in family
- Disruption›family›due to›stressful life events NEC
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z63.7. If Z63.79 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Z63.79
- Is Z63.79 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z63.79 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z63.79 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).