ICD-10 Code for Problem

The ICD-10-CM 2027 alphabetic index lists problem with the subterms below. More specific codes depend on the details documented, as listed in the official index (108 codes, 108 billable).

Index entries for Problem

academic – Z55.8
acculturation – Z60.3
adjustment (to)
- change of job – Z56.1
- life-cycle transition – Z60.0
- pension – Z60.0
- retirement – Z60.0
adopted child – Z62.821
alcoholism in family – Z63.72
atypical parenting situation – Z62.9
bankruptcy – Z59.89
behavioral (adult) – F69
- drug seeking – Z76.5
birth of sibling affecting child – Z62.898
care (of)
- provider dependency – Z74.9
  - specified NEC – Z74.8
- sick or handicapped person in family or household – Z63.6
child
- abuse (affecting the child) – see Maltreatment, child
- custody or support proceedings – Z65.3
- in
  - care of non-parental family member – Z62.23
  - custody of
    - grandparent – Z62.23
    - non-parental relative – Z62.23
    - non-relative guardian – Z62.24
  - foster care – Z62.21
  - kinship care – Z62.23
  - welfare
    - custody – Z62.21
    - guardianship – Z62.21
- leaving living situation without permission – Z62.892
- living in
  - group home – Z62.22
  - orphanage – Z62.22
child-rearing – Z62.9
- specified NEC – Z62.898
communication (developmental) – F80.9
completing medical forms – Z55.6
conflict or discord (with)
- boss – Z56.4
- classmates – Z55.4
- counselor – Z64.4
- employer – Z56.4
- family – Z63.9
  - specified NEC – Z63.8
- probation officer – Z64.4
- social worker – Z64.4
- teachers – Z55.4
- workmates – Z56.4
conviction in legal proceedings – Z65.0
- with imprisonment – Z65.1
counselor – Z64.4
creditors – Z59.89
digestive – K92.9
drug addict in family – Z63.72
ear – see Disorder, ear
economic – Z59.9
- affecting care – Z59.9
- specified NEC – Z59.89
- strain – Z59.868
education – Z55.9
- specified NEC – Z55.8
employment – Z56.9
- change of job – Z56.1
- discord – Z56.4
- environment – Z56.5
- sexual harassment – Z56.81
- specified NEC – Z56.89
- stress NEC – Z56.6
- stressful schedule – Z56.3
- threat of job loss – Z56.2
- unemployment – Z56.0
enuresis, child – F98.0
eye – H57.9
failed examinations (school) – Z55.2
falling – Z91.81
family – Z63.9- – see also Disruption, family
- specified NEC – Z63.8
feeding (elderly) (infant) – R63.39
- newborn – P92.9
  - breast – P92.5
  - overfeeding – P92.4
  - slow – P92.2
  - specified NEC – P92.8
  - underfeeding – P92.3
- nonorganic – F50.89
finance – Z59.9
- specified NEC – Z59.89
foreclosure on loan – Z59.89
foster child – Z62.822
frightening experience (s) – Z62.898
genital NEC
- female – N94.9
- male – N50.9
health care – Z75.9
- specified NEC – Z75.8
health literacy – Z55.6
hearing – see Deafness
homelessness – Z59.00
housing – Z59.9
- inadequate – Z59.10
- isolated – Z59.89
- specified NEC – Z59.89
identity (of childhood) – F93.8
illegitimate pregnancy (unwanted) – Z64.0
illiteracy – Z55.0
impaired mobility – Z74.09
imprisonment or incarceration – Z65.1
inadequate teaching affecting education – Z55.8
inappropriate (excessive) – Z62.6
influencing health status NEC – Z78.9
in-law – Z63.1
institutionalization, affecting child – Z62.22
intrafamilial communication – Z63.8
jealousy, child – F93.8
landlord – Z59.2
language (developmental) – F80.9
learning (developmental) – F81.9
legal – Z65.3
- conviction without imprisonment – Z65.0
- imprisonment – Z65.1
- release from prison – Z65.2
life-management – Z73.9
- specified NEC – Z73.89
life-style – Z72.9
- gambling – Z72.6
- high-risk sexual behavior (heterosexual) – Z72.51
  - bisexual – Z72.53
  - homosexual – Z72.52
- inappropriate eating habits – Z72.4
- self-damaging behavior NEC – Z72.89
- specified NEC – Z72.89
- tobacco use – Z72.0
literacy – Z55.9
- low level – Z55.0
- specified NEC – Z55.8
living alone – Z60.2
lodgers – Z59.2
loss of love relationship in childhood – Z62.898
marital – Z63.0
- involving
  - divorce – Z63.5
  - estrangement – Z63.5
  - gender identity – F66
mastication – K08.89
medical
- care, within family – Z63.6
- facilities – Z75.9
  - specified NEC – Z75.8
mental – F48.9
money – Z59.868
multiparity – Z64.1
negative life events in childhood – Z62.9
- altered pattern of family relationships – Z62.898
- frightening experience – Z62.898
- loss of
  - love relationship – Z62.898
  - self-esteem – Z62.898
- physical abuse (alleged) – see Maltreatment, child
- removal from home – Z62.29
- specified event NEC – Z62.898
neighbor – Z59.2
neurological NEC – R29.818
new step-parent affecting child – Z62.823
none (feared complaint unfounded) – Z71.1
occupational NEC – Z56.89
parent-child – see Conflict, parent-child
personal hygiene – Z91.89
personality – F69
phase-of-life transition, adjustment – Z60.0
presence of sick or disabled person in family or household – Z63.79
- needing care – Z63.6
primary support group (family) – Z63.9
- specified NEC – Z63.8
probation officer – Z64.4
psychiatric – F99
psychosexual (development) – F66
psychosocial – Z65.9
- religious or spiritual – Z65.8
- specified NEC – Z65.8
related to physical environment, specified NEC – Z58.89
relationship – Z63.9
- childhood – F93.8
release from prison – Z65.2
- religious or spiritual – Z65.8
removal from home affecting child – Z62.29
seeking and accepting known hazardous and harmful
- behavioral or psychological interventions – Z65.8
- chemical, nutritional or physical interventions – Z65.8
sexual function (nonorganic) – F52.9
sight – H54.7
sleep disorder, child – F51.9
smell – see Disturbance, sensation, smell
social
- environment – Z60.9
  - specified NEC – Z60.8
- exclusion and rejection – Z60.4
- worker – Z64.4
speech – R47.9
- developmental – F80.9
- specified NEC – R47.89
swallowing – see Dysphagia
taste – see Disturbance, sensation, taste
tic, child – F95.0
underachievement in school – Z55.3
unemployment – Z56.0
- threatened – Z56.2
unwanted pregnancy – Z64.0
upbringing – Z62.9
- specified NEC – Z62.898
urinary – N39.9
voice production – R47.89
work schedule (stressful) – Z56.3

How to choose the right code

Start with the main term, then pick the indented subterm that matches the documentation (type, cause, site, laterality, episode of care). Always confirm the code in the tabular list: follow its Excludes1/Excludes2, “code first” and “use additional code” notes, and add a 7th character where required.

Source: CDC/NCHS ICD-10-CM FY2027 alphabetic index.