Housing instability, housed
Non-billable header
Z59.81 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Foreclosure on home loan
- Past due on rent or mortgage
- Unwanted multiple moves in the last 12 months
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
- Foreclosure on home loan
- Past due on rent or mortgage
- Unwanted multiple moves in the last 12 months
- Financial problem affecting care NOS, foreclosure on loan, home loan
- Unwanted, multiple moves in the last 12 months
Parent code
- Z59.8Other problems related to housing and economic circumstancesHeader