Z74.2

Need for assistance at home and no other household member able to render care

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

Exclusions 1 never code together

Z74code

Excludes2

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

Instructional notes 3

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-Z99 A00-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 7

Care (of) (for) (following)
- unavailable, due to
  - absence of person rendering care Z74.2
  - inability (any reason) of person rendering care Z74.2
- family member (handicapped) (sick)
  - unavailable, due to
    - absence (person rendering care) (sufferer) Z74.2
    - inability (any reason) of person rendering care Z74.2
Lack of
- care
  - in home Z74.2
- person able to render necessary care Z74.2
Dependence (on) (syndrome) F19.20
- on
  - care provider (because of) Z74.9
    - no other household member able to render care Z74.2
Need (for)
- care provider because (of)
  - no other household member able to render care Z74.2
Inadequate, inadequacy
- household care, due to
  - family member
    - temporarily away from home Z74.2
    - handicapped or ill Z74.2
  - temporary absence from home of person rendering care Z74.2
Living alone (problems with) Z60.2
- with handicapped person Z74.2
Person (with)
- living (in)
  - without
    - person able to render necessary care Z74.2

Alongside this code 5 same parent — Z74

Additional references

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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.

Maps to no condition category in any loaded model.

Presence is a property of the code. Untick a model to hide it everywhere.

Present FY2024–FY2027.