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Z91.151

Z91.151: Patient's noncompliance with renal dialysis due to financial hardship

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z91.151 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for patient's noncompliance with renal dialysis due to financial hardship. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z91.151

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

Written on Z91.1: Patient's noncompliance with medical treatment and regimen

  • caregiver noncompliance with patient's medical treatment and regimen (Z91.A-)

Written on Z91: Personal risk factors, not elsewhere classified

  • contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health (Z77.-)
  • exposure to pollution and other problems related to physical environment (Z77.1-)
  • female genital mutilation status (N90.81-)
  • occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-)
  • personal history of physical injury and trauma (Z87.81, Z87.82-)

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

Z91.151 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

  • A56915Billing and Coding: Urine Drug Testing

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Dialysis›noncompliance›due to financial hardship
  • Noncompliance›with›dialysis›due to financial hardship
  • Noncompliance›with›renal dialysis›due to financial hardship

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z91.15

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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