ICD-10-CM · Chapter 21 · Z00–Z99
Z59.819
Housing instability, housed unspecified
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Quick facts
- Code
- Z59.819
- 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
- 6 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM Z59.819 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of housing instability, housed 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
- Z59.00Homelessness unspecified
- 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
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