Z62.21
Child in welfare custody
BillableComplete code, valid to report
Z62.21 (also written Z6221) is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for child in welfare custody. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. It is one of the 28 codes in category Z62 (Problems related to upbringing). The Alphabetic Index lists it under 6 entries. Its coding notes include 1 Excludes1 entry and 2 Excludes2 entries.
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
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
Inclusion terms
Conditions classified to this code.
This code
- Child in foster care
- Child in welfare guardianship
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. 6 entries
- Problem (with) (related to), child, in, foster care
- Problem (with) (related to), child, in, welfare, custody
- Problem (with) (related to), child, in, welfare, guardianship
- Upbringing, institutional, in care of non-parental family member
- Upbringing, institutional, in foster care
- Upbringing, institutional, in welfare custody