Alphabetic Index FY2027

Z56

Problems related to employment and unemployment

FY2027Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services/Z55–Z65 Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances

Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.

Z56 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code category for problems related to employment and unemployment. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are Z56.0 Unemployment, unspecified; Z56.1 Change of job; Z56.2 Threat of job loss; Z56.3 Stressful work schedule and 5 more. Its coding notes include 2 Excludes2 entries.

Excludes2

Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.

This code
  • occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-)
  • problems related to housing and economic circumstances (Z59.-)

Notes

Also from chapter/block level (3 notes)
Inherited from Chapter 21 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
  • 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:
    • (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.
    • (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 under Z56 9