Z65.4 — Victim of crime and terrorism
Z65.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for victim of crime and terrorism. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Victim of torture
Risk adjustment
Z65.4 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.
Medicare coverage
Z65.4 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A57130Billing and Coding: Psychiatric Codes
How Z65.4 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 Z65.4.
- Crime, victim of
- Terrorism, victim of
- Torture, victim of
- Exposure›terrorism
- Exposure›torture
- Victim›crime
- Victim›terrorism
- Victim›torture
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Z65. If Z65.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Z65.0Conviction in civil and criminal proceedings without imprisonment
- Z65.1Imprisonment and other incarceration
- Z65.2Problems related to release from prison
- Z65.3Problems related to other legal circumstances
- Z65.5Exposure to disaster, war and other hostilities
- Z65.8Other specified problems related to psychosocial circumstances
- Z65.9Problem related to unspecified psychosocial circumstances
Questions about Z65.4
- Is Z65.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z65.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z65.4 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).