Z59.86

Financial insecurity

Non-billable header

Z59.86 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Burdensome debt
  • Economic strain
  • Financial strain
  • Money problems
  • Running out of money
  • Unable to make ends meet

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.

  • extreme poverty (Z59.5)
  • low income (Z59.6)
  • material hardship, not elsewhere classified (Z59.87)
  • problems related to upbringing (Z62.-) (from Z59)

Also known as

  • Burdensome debt
  • Economic strain
  • Financial strain
  • Money problems
  • Running out of money
  • Unable to make ends meet

Parent code

  • Z59.8Other problems related to housing and economic circumstancesHeader

More specific codes Z59.86

  • Z59.861Financial insecurity, difficulty paying for utilitiesBillable
  • Z59.868Other specified financial insecurityBillable
  • Z59.869Financial insecurity, unspecifiedBillable

Related codes

  • Z59.81Housing instability, housedHeader
  • Z59.82Transportation insecurityBillable
  • Z59.87Material hardship due to limited financial resources, not elsewhere classifiedBillable
  • Z59.89Other problems related to housing and economic circumstancesBillable

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