Z74.2
Need for assistance at home and no other household member able to render care
BillableComplete code, valid to report
Z74.2 (also written Z742) is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for need for assistance at home and no other household member able to render care. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. It is one of the 7 codes in category Z74 (Problems related to care provider dependency). The Alphabetic Index lists it under 13 entries. Its coding notes include 1 Excludes2 entry.
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
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. 13 entries
- Care (of) (for) (following), family member (handicapped) (sick), unavailable, due to, absence (person rendering care) (sufferer)
- Care (of) (for) (following), family member (handicapped) (sick), unavailable, due to, inability (any reason) of person rendering care
- Care (of) (for) (following), unavailable, due to, absence of person rendering care
- Care (of) (for) (following), unavailable, due to, inability (any reason) of person rendering care
- Dependence (on) (syndrome), on, care provider (because of), no other household member able to render care
- Inadequate, inadequacy, household care, due to, family member, handicapped or ill
- Inadequate, inadequacy, household care, due to, family member, temporarily away from home
- Inadequate, inadequacy, household care, due to, temporary absence from home of person rendering care
- Lack of, care, in home
- Lack of, person able to render necessary care
- Living alone (problems with), with handicapped person
- Need (for), care provider because (of), no other household member able to render care