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Category · FY2027

Z60 Problems related to social environment

  • Header · not billable

Z60 is not billable. The category heads 7 billable codes in FY2027: the 7 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Empty nest syndrome → Z60.0
  • Acculturation difficulty → Z60.3
  • Living alone (problems with) → Z60.2

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 21 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
  2. Z55-Z65 Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
  3. Z60 Problems related to social environment
Billable codes
7
Subdivisions
7
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
45

Codes in Z60

  1. Z60.0
    Problems of adjustment to life-cycle transitions
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 3

    Inclusion terms

    • Empty nest syndrome
    • Phase of life problem
    • Problem with adjustment to retirement [pension]
  2. Z60.2
    Problems related to living alone
    Billable
  3. Z60.3
    Acculturation difficulty
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Problem with migration
    • Problem with social transplantation
  4. Z60.4
    Social exclusion and rejection
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2, Excludes1 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Exclusion and rejection on the basis of personal characteristics, such as unusual physical appearance, illness or behavior.
    • Social isolation

    Excludes1

    • target of adverse discrimination such as for racial or religious reasons (Z60.5) Z60.5
  5. Z60.5
    Target of (perceived) adverse discrimination and persecution
    Billable
    Excludes1 1

    Excludes1

    • social exclusion and rejection (Z60.4) Z60.4
  6. Z60.8
    Other problems related to social environment
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Inadequate social support
    • Lack of emotional support
  7. Z60.9
    Problem related to social environment, unspecified
    Billable

Sources of each column.

Instructions

Notes that also apply

Chapter 21 instructions (Notes 3): printed on the chapter 21 page.

Index entries

  • Empty nest syndrome → Z60.0
  • Living alone (problems with) → Z60.2
  • Acculturation difficulty → Z60.3
  • Cultural deprivation or shock → Z60.3
  • Migration, anxiety concerning → Z60.3
  • Problem (with) (related to)phase-of-life transition, adjustment → Z60.0
  • Syndromeempty nest → Z60.0
  • Problem (with) (related to)living alone → Z60.2
  • Deprivationcultural → Z60.3
  • Difficult, difficulty (in)acculturation → Z60.3
  • Problem (with) (related to)acculturation → Z60.3
  • Socialtransplantation → Z60.3
  • Transplant (ed) (status)social → Z60.3
  • Deprivationsocial → Z60.4
  • Isolation, isolatedsocial → Z60.4
  • Socialexclusion → Z60.4
  • Socialrejection → Z60.4
  • Discriminationethnic → Z60.5
  • Discriminationpolitical → Z60.5
  • Discriminationracial → Z60.5
  • Discriminationreligious → Z60.5
  • Discriminationsex → Z60.5
  • Exposure (to)discrimination → Z60.5
  • Exposure (to)persecution → Z60.5
  • Persecutionsocial → Z60.5
  • Lack ofemotional support → Z60.8
  • Maladjustmentsocial → Z60.9
  • Problem (with) (related to)adjustment (to)life-cycle transition → Z60.0
  • Problem (with) (related to)adjustment (to)pension → Z60.0
  • Problem (with) (related to)adjustment (to)retirement → Z60.0
  • Counseling (for)medical (for)person living alone → Z60.2
  • Person (with)living (in)alone → Z60.2
  • Socialmigrantacculturation difficulty → Z60.3
  • Problem (with) (related to)socialexclusion and rejection → Z60.4
  • Socialexclusiondue to discrimination or persecution (perceived) → Z60.5
  • Socialrejectiondue to discrimination or persecution → Z60.5
  • Inadequate, inadequacysocialsocial support → Z60.8
  • Problem (with) (related to)socialenvironment → Z60.9
  • Maladjustmentsocialdue tolife-cycle (phase of life) transition → Z60.0
  • Maladjustmentsocialdue toacculturation difficulty → Z60.3

5 more, longer entries are not listed; the search box finds them by word.

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