Z59.7

Insufficient social insurance and welfare support

Non-billable header

Z59.7 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Insufficient social and welfare insurance

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.

  • problems related to upbringing (Z62.-) (from Z59)

Also known as

  • Insufficient social and welfare insurance

Parent code

  • Z59Problems related to housing and economic circumstancesHeader

More specific codes Z59.7

  • Z59.71Insufficient health insurance coverageBillable
  • Z59.72Insufficient welfare supportBillable

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
  • Z59.6Low incomeBillable
  • Z59.8Other problems related to housing and economic circumstancesHeader
  • Z59.9Problem related to housing and economic circumstances, unspecifiedBillable

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