ICD-10-CM · Chapter 21 · Z00–Z99
Z59.00
Homelessness unspecified
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Quick facts
- Code
- Z59.00
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 21 — Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
- Category
- Z59 — Problems related to housing and economic circumstances
- Specificity
- 5 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM Z59.00 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of homelessness unspecified. Coders assign it when the chart documentation supports this level of detail, always matching to the most specific code available and verifying against the chapter-specific guidelines published annually by NCHS/CMS.
Related codes in Z59
- Z59Problems related to housing and economic circumstances
- Z59.0Homelessness
- Z59.01Sheltered homelessness
- Z59.02Unsheltered homelessness
- Z59.1Inadequate housing
- Z59.10Inadequate housing, unspecified
- Z59.11Inadequate housing environmental temperature
- Z59.12Inadequate housing utilities
- Z59.19Other inadequate housing
- Z59.2Discord with neighbors, lodgers and landlord
- Z59.3Problems related to living in residential institution
- Z59.4Lack of adequate food
- Z59.41Food insecurity
- Z59.48Other specified lack of adequate food
- Z59.5Extreme poverty
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