Z63.5
Disruption of family by separation and divorce
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 4 never code together
Instructional notes 4
Z63.5code
Inclusion terms
- Marital estrangement
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 9
- Conflict (with) — see also Discord
- Maladjustment
- Conjugal maladjustment Z63.0
- involving divorce or estrangement Z63.5
- Family, familial — see also condition
- Disruption (of)
- Problem (with) (related to)
- Divorce, causing family disruption Z63.5
- Incompatibility
- divorce or estrangement Z63.5
- Estrangement (marital) Z63.5
Alongside this code 8 same parent — Z63
Z63.0 Problems in relationship with spouse or partner Z63.1 Problems in relationship with in-laws Z63.3 Absence of family member category Z63.4 Disappearance and death of family member Z63.6 Dependent relative needing care at home Z63.7 Other stressful life events affecting family and household category Z63.8 Other specified problems related to primary support group Z63.9 Problem related to primary support group, unspecified
Additional references
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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.