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Z73.4

Z73.4: Inadequate social skills, not elsewhere classified

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z73.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for inadequate social skills, not elsewhere classified. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z73.4

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

Written on Z73: Problems related to life management difficulty

  • problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Social›skills inadequacy NEC
  • Inadequate, inadequacy›social›skills NEC

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z73

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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