Z59: Problems related to housing and economic circumstances

Codes under Z59 (Problems related to housing and economic circumstances). A ✓ marks a billable (fully specified) code; category codes without a ✓ are not billable on their own.

Code	Description	Billable
Z59.0	Homelessness	—
Z59.00	Homelessness unspecified	✓
Z59.01	Sheltered homelessness	✓
Z59.1	Inadequate housing	—
Z59.02	Unsheltered homelessness	✓
Z59.2	Discord with neighbors, lodgers and landlord	✓
Z59.3	Problems related to living in residential institution	✓
Z59.4	Lack of adequate food	—
Z59.5	Extreme poverty	✓
Z59.6	Low income	✓
Z59.7	Insufficient social insurance and welfare support	—
Z59.8	Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances	—
Z59.9	Problem related to housing and economic circumstances, unspecified	✓
Z59.10	Inadequate housing, unspecified	✓
Z59.11	Inadequate housing environmental temperature	✓
Z59.12	Inadequate housing utilities	✓
Z59.19	Other inadequate housing	✓
Z59.41	Food insecurity	✓
Z59.48	Other specified lack of adequate food	✓
Z59.71	Insufficient health insurance coverage	✓
Z59.72	Insufficient welfare support	✓
Z59.81	Housing instability, housed	—
Z59.82	Transportation insecurity	✓
Z59.86	Financial insecurity	—
Z59.87	Material hardship due to limited financial resources, not elsewhere classified	✓
Z59.89	Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances	✓
Z59.811	Housing instability, housed, with risk of homelessness	✓
Z59.812	Housing instability, housed, homelessness in past 12 months	✓
Z59.819	Housing instability, housed unspecified	✓
Z59.861	Financial insecurity, difficulty paying for utilities	✓
Z59.868	Other specified financial insecurity	✓
Z59.869	Financial insecurity, unspecified	✓

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