Z59.81
Housing instability, housed
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
Z59.81 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for housing instability, housed. 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 Z59.811 Housing instability, housed, with risk of homelessness; Z59.812 Housing instability, housed, homelessness in past 12 months and Z59.819 Housing instability, housed unspecified. Its coding notes include 1 Excludes2 entry.
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Inclusion terms
Conditions classified to this code.
This code
- Foreclosure on home loan
- Past due on rent or mortgage
- Unwanted multiple moves in the last 12 months
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.
Alphabetic Index terms
Terms the official Alphabetic Index lists for this code. 3 entries