Z63.79
Other stressful life events affecting family and household
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 4 never code together
Instructional notes 7
Z63.79code
Inclusion terms
- Anxiety (normal) about sick person in family
- Health problems within family
- Ill or disturbed family member
- Isolated family
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 4
Alongside this code 2 same parent — Z63.7
Medications 2
9790 Diseases, Life Phases, Behavior Mechanisms and Physiologic States drugs 948 Life Phases, Behavior Mechanisms and Physiologic States [Disease] drugs
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.