Problems related to social environment
Non-billable header
Z60 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- 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.
More specific codes Z60
- Z60.0Problems of adjustment to life-cycle transitionsBillable
- Z60.2Problems related to living aloneBillable
- Z60.3Acculturation difficultyBillable
- Z60.4Social exclusion and rejectionBillable
- Z60.5Target of (perceived) adverse discrimination and persecutionBillable
- Z60.8Other problems related to social environmentBillable
- Z60.9Problem related to social environment, unspecifiedBillable
Related codes
- Z55Problems related to education and literacyHeader
- Z56Problems related to employment and unemploymentHeader
- Z57Occupational exposure to risk factorsHeader
- Z58Problems related to physical environmentHeader
- Z59Problems related to housing and economic circumstancesHeader
- Z62Problems related to upbringingHeader
- Z63Other problems related to primary support group, including family circumstancesHeader
- Z64Problems related to certain psychosocial circumstancesHeader
- Z65Problems related to other psychosocial circumstancesHeader