2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z62.898

Other specified problems related to upbringing

ICD-10-CM Code:
Z62.898
ICD-10 Code for:
Other specified problems related to upbringing
Is Billable?
Yes - Valid for Submission
Code Navigator:

Code Classification

  • Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
    (Z00–Z99)
    • Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances
      (Z55-Z65)
      • Problems related to upbringing
        (Z62)

Z62.898 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other specified problems related to upbringing. 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:

  • Adopted
  • Alteration in parenting
  • At increased risk for deficient parenting
  • At increased risk for psychosocial dysfunction
  • Child/parent violence
  • Deprived childhood
  • Disturbance in role performance
  • Disturbance in role performance
  • Disturbance in role performance
  • Impaired parenting
  • Impairment of caregiver child attachment
  • Ineffective fatherhood
  • Ineffective motherhood
  • Ineffective parenthood
  • Parent/child conflict
  • Type of upbringing - finding
  • Unhappy childhood
  • Violence between parents

Clinical Classification

Clinical Information

  • Adopted

    having been legally made a member of a family.
  • Adopted Brother

    a male sibling who is legally adopted by one's biological parent or legal guardian.
  • Adopted Child

    a child in the parent-child relationship established by a legal adoption proceeding.
  • Adopted Daughter

    a female child in the parent-child relationship established by a legal adoption proceeding.
  • Adopted Sister

    a female sibling who is legally adopted by one's biological parent or legal guardian.
  • Adopted Son

    a male child in the parent-child relationship established by a legal adoption proceeding.
  • Female Sibling of Adopted Child

    a female sibling of an adopted child. the said female is a biological or legal child of the parents who facilitated the adoption.
  • FIGO Staging System and Modified World Health Organization [WHO] Prognostic Scoring System for Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms|Modified WHO Prognostic Scoring System as adopted by FIGO for Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms

    a system for defining prognosis for gestational trophoblastic neoplasia. in this system, the figo stage is represented by an roman numeral, followed by the modified who score depicted as an arabic numeral and separated by a colon (e.g., stage ii:4, stage iv:9). scores of 0-6 are considered low-risk and scores greater than 6 are considered high-risk.
  • Male Sibling of Adopted Child

    a male sibling of an adopted child. the said male is a biological or legal child of the parents who facilitated the adoption.

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).


  • Z62.823 - Parent-step child conflict
  • Z62.831 - Non-parental relative-child conflict
  • Z62.832 - Non-relative guardian-child conflict
  • Z62.833 - Group home staff-child conflict
  • Z62.892 - Runaway [from current living environment]

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.

Present on Admission (POA)

Z62.898 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 IndicatorReason for CodeCMS will pay the CC/MCC DRG?
YDiagnosis was present at time of inpatient admission.YES
NDiagnosis was not present at time of inpatient admission.NO
UDocumentation insufficient to determine if the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission.NO
WClinically undetermined - unable to clinically determine whether the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission.YES
1Unreported/Not used - Exempt from POA reporting. NO

Convert Z62.898 to ICD-9-CM

  • ICD-9-CM Code: V61.29 - Oth parent-child problem
    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.

Patient Education


Family Issues

There are many kinds of families. Some have two parents, while others have a single parent. Sometimes there is no parent and grandparents raise grandchildren. Some children live in foster families, adoptive families, or in stepfamilies.

Families are much more than groups of people who share the same genes or the same address. They should be a source of love and support. This does not mean that everyone gets along all the time. Conflicts are a part of family life. Many things can lead to conflict, such as illness, disability, addiction, job loss, school problems, and marital issues. Listening to each other and working to resolve conflicts are important in strengthening the family.


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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.