Valid for Submission
Z72.820 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of sleep deprivation. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code Z72.820 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like difficulty sleeping, disturbance in sleep behavior, finding related to ability to sleep, insufficient rest/sleep for age, insufficient rest/sleep for physical condition, sleep deprivation, etc The code is exempt from present on admission (POA) reporting for inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals.
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code Z72.820:
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.
- Lack of adequate sleep
Type 1 Excludes
Type 1 ExcludesA type 1 excludes note is a pure excludes note. It means "NOT CODED HERE!" An Excludes1 note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note. An Excludes1 is used when two conditions cannot occur together, such as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition.
- insomnia G47.0
Index to Diseases and Injuries
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code Z72.820 are found in the index:
- - Deprivation
- - sleep - Z72.820
- - Lack of
- - adequate
- - sleep - Z72.820
- - sleep (adequate) - Z72.820
- - adequate
- - Sleep
- - deprivation - Z72.820
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Difficulty sleeping
- Disturbance in sleep behavior
- Finding related to ability to sleep
- Insufficient rest/sleep for age
- Insufficient rest/sleep for physical condition
- Sleep deprivation
Clinical Information
- SLEEP DEPRIVATION-. the state of being deprived of sleep under experimental conditions due to life events or from a wide variety of pathophysiologic causes such as medication effect chronic illness psychiatric illness or sleep disorder.
Present on Admission (POA)
Z72.820 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 Code | POA 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 |
Convert Z72.820 to ICD-9
- V69.4 - Lack of adequate sleep
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
(First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set) - FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020