2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z60.9
Problem related to social environment, unspecified
- ICD-10-CM Code:
- Z60.9
- ICD-10 Code for:
- Problem related to social environment, unspecified
- Is Billable?
- Yes - Valid for Submission
- Code Navigator:
Z60.9 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of problem related to social environment, unspecified. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024.
This code describes a circumstance which influences the patient's health status but not a current illness or injury. The code is unacceptable as a principal diagnosis.
Unspecified diagnosis codes like Z60.9 are acceptable when clinical information is unknown or not available about a particular condition. Although a more specific code is preferable, unspecified codes should be used when such codes most accurately reflect what is known about a patient's condition. Specific diagnosis codes should not be used if not supported by the patient's medical record.
Approximate Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Alteration in social interaction
- Disturbance in life pattern
- Disturbance in life pattern
- Disturbance in life pattern associated with community
- Disturbance in life pattern associated with social status
- Language difficulty
- No adult family member literate in English
- Personality trait causing social impairment
- Poor social circumstances
- Problem related to social environment
- Problem situation relating to social and personal history
- Social discord
- Social environment related disease
- Social maladjustment
- Social problem
- Social worker involved
- Socialization alteration
- Under care of social worker
Clinical Classification
Clinical Category is Socioeconomic/psychosocial factors
- CCSR Category Code: FAC019
- Inpatient Default CCSR: X - Not applicable.
- Outpatient Default CCSR: X - Not applicable.
Index to Diseases and Injuries References
The following annotation back-references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index. The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10-CM code(s).
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10-CM Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Unacceptable principal diagnosis - There are selected codes that describe a circumstance which influences an individual's health status but not a current illness or injury, or codes that are not specific manifestations but may be due to an underlying cause. These codes are considered unacceptable as a principal diagnosis.
Convert Z60.9 to ICD-9-CM
- ICD-9-CM Code: V62.89 - Psychological stress NEC
Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.
Code History
- FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
- FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
- FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.