Z73

Problems related to life management difficulty

FY2027Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services/Z69–Z76 Persons encountering health services in other circumstances

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

Excludes2

Z73 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code category for problems related to life management difficulty. 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 Z73.0 Burn-out; Z73.1 Type A behavior pattern; Z73.2 Lack of relaxation and leisure; Z73.3 Stress, not elsewhere classified and 5 more. Its coding notes include 1 Excludes2 entry.

Excludes2

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

This code

problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)

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 Z73 9