Problems of adjustment to life-cycle transitions
Billable / specific
Z60.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Empty nest syndrome
- Phase of life problem
- Problem with adjustment to retirement [pension]
Includes (from Z60)
- 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.
Also known as
- Empty nest syndrome
- Phase of life problem
- Problem with adjustment to retirement [pension]
- Maladjustment, social, due to life-cycletransition
- Problem, adjustment, life-cycle transition
- Problem, adjustment, pension
- Problem, adjustment, retirement
- Problem, phase-of-life transition, adjustment
- Syndrome, empty nest
Parent code
- Z60Problems related to social environmentHeader
Related codes
- 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