Target of (perceived) adverse discrimination and persecution
Billable / specific
Z60.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
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.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- social exclusion and rejection (Z60.4)
Also known as
- Discrimination, ethnic
- Discrimination, political
- Discrimination, racial
- Discrimination, religious
- Discrimination, sex
- Exposure, discrimination
- Exposure, persecution
- Maladjustment, social, due to discrimination and persecution
- Persecution, social
- Social, exclusion, due to discrimination or persecution
- Social, rejection, due to discrimination or persecution
Parent code
- Z60Problems related to social environmentHeader
Related codes
- Z60.0Problems of adjustment to life-cycle transitionsBillable
- Z60.2Problems related to living aloneBillable
- Z60.3Acculturation difficultyBillable
- Z60.4Social exclusion and rejectionBillable
- Z60.8Other problems related to social environmentBillable
- Z60.9Problem related to social environment, unspecifiedBillable