Z72.821

Inadequate sleep hygiene

Billable / specificPOA exempt

Z72.821 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

  • Bad sleep habits
  • Irregular sleep habits
  • Unhealthy sleep wake schedule

Includes (from Z72)

  • 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.

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • problems related to life-management difficulty (Z73.-) (from Z72)
  • problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65) (from Z72)

Also known as

  • Bad sleep habits
  • Irregular sleep habits
  • Unhealthy sleep wake schedule
  • Behavior, sleep-incompatible
  • Excess, excessive, excessively, napping
  • Habit, habituation, bad sleep
  • Habit, habituation, irregular sleep
  • History, personal, sleep-wake cycle problem
  • History, personal, unhealthy sleep-wake cycle
  • Hygiene, sleep, abuse
  • Hygiene, sleep, inadequate
  • Hygiene, sleep, poor
  • Sleep hygiene, abuse
  • Sleep hygiene, inadequate
  • Sleep hygiene, poor

Parent code

  • Z72.82Problems related to sleepHeader

Related codes

  • Z72.820Sleep deprivationBillable
  • Z72.823Risk of suffocation (smothering) under another while sleepingBillable

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