Alphabetic Index FY2027

Z62

Problems related to upbringing

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.

Z62 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code category for problems related to upbringing. 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 Z62.0 Inadequate parental supervision and control, Z62.1 Parental overprotection, Z62.2 Upbringing away from parents, Z62.3 Hostility towards and scapegoating of child and 3 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
  • maltreatment syndrome (T74.-)
  • problems related to housing and economic circumstances (Z59.-)

Includes

Further defines or gives examples of the content of the category.

This code
  • current and past negative life events in childhood
  • current and past problems of a child related to upbringing

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 Z62 7