Z62.2
Upbringing away from parents
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
Z62.2 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for upbringing away from parents. 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 Z62.21 Child in welfare custody, Z62.22 Institutional upbringing, Z62.23 Child in custody of non-parental relative, Z62.24 Child in custody of non-relative guardian and 1 more. Its coding notes include 1 Excludes1 entry and 2 Excludes2 entries.
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
This code
- problems with boarding school (Z59.3)
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Includes
Further defines or gives examples of the content of the category.
Inherited from Z62 Problems related to upbringing
- 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.