2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z59.89
Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances
- ICD-10-CM Code:
- Z59.89
- ICD-10 Code for:
- Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances
- Is Billable?
- Yes - Valid for Submission
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Z59.89 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other problems related to housing and economic circumstances. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024. The code is exempt from present on admission (POA) reporting for inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals.
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.
Approximate Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Accommodation not decorated recently
- At risk of housing code violation
- Awaiting housing improvement
- Bankruptcy
- Children not allowed in house
- Cleanliness of home - finding
- Cluttered living space
- Damp in house
- Dirty environment
- Dirty environment
- Dirty home
- Dirty living conditions
- Divorced couple sharing house
- Does not own home
- Eligibility for accommodation - finding
- Employment circumstances of partner and/or spouse
- Environmental infestation of rodents
- Evicted forcibly from house
- Eviction from dwelling
- Eviction notice served
- Financial circumstances change
- Finding of entitlement to benefit status
- Finding related to decoration of home
- Finding related to health insurance issues
- Finding relating to awaiting housing or re-housing
- Finding relating to awaiting housing or re-housing
- Finding relating to awaiting housing or re-housing
- Finding relating to awaiting housing or re-housing
- Finding relating to awaiting housing or re-housing
- Finding relating to awaiting housing or re-housing
- Finding relating to awaiting housing or re-housing
- Home poorly personalized
- Home repossessed
- Home untidy
- Household income - finding
- Housing - awaiting action
- In debt
- Income insufficient to buy necessities
- Income sufficient to buy only necessities
- Individual income - finding
- Lack of access to transportation
- Lack of opportunity for privacy
- Lack of telephone in home environment
- Lives as illegal tenant
- Living in temporary quarters
- Living temporarily with relatives
- No fixed abode
- No household income
- No personal income
- Not eligible for accommodation
- Not entitled to benefits
- Not on waiting list for accommodation
- On housing list
- On urgent housing list
- On waiting list for accommodation
- Partner stops work
- Personalization of home - finding
- Slum area living
- Sufficiency of income for needs - finding
- Sufficiency of income for needs - finding
- Tenant evicted
- Tidiness of home - finding
- Transport problem
- Unable to afford blood pressure monitor
- Unable to afford glucose monitoring device
- Unable to afford visit copayment
- Unable to afford weight scale
- Under care of homeless advocacy service
- Under care of service
- Victim of financial abuse
- Waiting list for accommodation - finding
Clinical Classification
Clinical Category is Socioeconomic/psychosocial factors
- CCSR Category Code: FAC019
- Inpatient Default CCSR: X - Not applicable.
- Outpatient Default CCSR: X - Not applicable.
Clinical Information
Bankruptcy
the state of legal insolvency with assets taken over by judicial process so that they may be distributed among creditors.
Replaced Code
This code was replaced in the 2024 ICD-10-CM code set with the code(s) listed below. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has published an update to the ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes which became effective October 1, 2023. This code was replaced for the FY 2024 (October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024).
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The following annotation back-references are applicable to this diagnosis code. The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10-CM codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with coding notes and guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more.
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion TermsThese terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
- Foreclosure on loan
- Isolated dwelling
- Problems with creditors
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).
- - Financial problem affecting care NOS - Z59.9
- - bankruptcy - Z59.89
- - foreclosure on loan - Z59.89
- - Foreclosure on loan - Z59.89
- - Household, housing circumstance affecting care - Z59.9
- - specified NEC - Z59.89
- - Isolation, isolated
- - dwelling - Z59.89
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.
Present on Admission (POA)
Z59.89 is exempt from POA reporting - The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement. Review other POA exempt codes here.
CMS POA Indicator Options and Definitions
POA Indicator | Reason for Code | CMS will pay the CC/MCC DRG? |
---|---|---|
Y | Diagnosis was present at time of inpatient admission. | YES |
N | Diagnosis was not present at time of inpatient admission. | NO |
U | Documentation insufficient to determine if the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission. | NO |
W | Clinically undetermined - unable to clinically determine whether the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission. | YES |
1 | Unreported/Not used - Exempt from POA reporting. | NO |
Replacement Code
Z5989 replaces the following previously assigned ICD-10-CM code(s):
- Z59.8 - Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances
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 - Code Added, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022