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Z59.87

Material hardship due to limited financial resources, not elsewhere classified

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 4 never code together
Z59.87code
Excludes2
  • extreme poverty (Z59.5)Z59.5
  • financial insecurity, not elsewhere classified (Z59.86-)Z59.86-
  • low income (Z59.6)Z59.6
Z59code
Excludes2
  • problems related to upbringing (Z62.-)Z62.-

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 7
Z59.87code
Inclusion terms
  • Material deprivation due to limited financial resources
  • Unable to obtain adequate childcare due to limited financial resources
  • Unable to obtain adequate clothing due to limited financial resources
  • Unable to obtain basic needs due to limited financial resources
Z00-Z99chapter
Notes
  • 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:Z00-Z99A00-Y89
  • (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.
Index entries leading here 5
  • Unable to
    • obtain
      • adequate
        • childcare due to limited financial resources, specified NEC Z59.87
        • clothing due to limited financial resources, specified NEC Z59.87
      • basic
        • needs due to limited financial resources, specified NEC Z59.87
  • Deprivation
    • material due to limited financial resources, specified NEC Z59.87
  • Hardship, material, due to limited financial resources, specified NEC Z59.87
  • Inadequate, inadequacy
    • material resources due to limited financial resources, specified NEC Z59.87
  • Lack of
    • material resources due to limited financial resources, specified NEC Z59.87
Alongside this code 4 same parent — Z59.8
Additional references
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Risk adjustment

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This code

Billable
yes
Code set
FY2026
Parent
Z59.8
Block
Z55-Z65
Siblings
4

Present FY2024–FY2027.