Z74.01 — Bed confinement status
Z74.01 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for bed confinement status. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Bedridden
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z74.01
Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of Z74.01, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.
Other codes that can never be billed with Z74.01
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Z74.01. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Z74.01 alone.
- Z73.6Limitation of activities due to disability
Risk adjustment
Z74.01 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 Z74.01 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 Z74.01.
- Bed confinement status
- Bedridden
- Status›bed confinement
Code history
Z74.01 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 Z74.0. If Z74.01 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Z74.01
- Is Z74.01 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Z74.01 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Z74.01 sit in the tabular list?
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99), in the block Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z69-Z76).