Z60
Problems related to social environment
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Instructional notes 3
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.
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Subordinate codes 7
Z60.0 Problems of adjustment to life-cycle transitions Z60.2 Problems related to living alone Z60.3 Acculturation difficulty Z60.4 Social exclusion and rejection Z60.5 Target of (perceived) adverse discrimination and persecution Z60.8 Other problems related to social environment Z60.9 Problem related to social environment, unspecified
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