Low income
Billable / specificPOA exempt
Z59.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from Z59)
- Note: Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
- Note: (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
- Note: (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Also known as
- Inadequate, inadequacy, income
- Lack of, financial resources
- Low, income
- Poverty NEC
Parent code
- Z59Problems related to housing and economic circumstancesHeader
Related codes
- Z59.0HomelessnessHeader
- Z59.1Inadequate housingHeader
- Z59.2Discord with neighbors, lodgers and landlordBillable
- Z59.3Problems related to living in residential institutionBillable
- Z59.4Lack of adequate foodHeader
- Z59.5Extreme povertyBillable
- Z59.7Insufficient social insurance and welfare supportHeader
- Z59.8Other problems related to housing and economic circumstancesHeader
- Z59.9Problem related to housing and economic circumstances, unspecifiedBillable