Z59.811 ICD-10-CM Code: Housing instability, housed, with risk of homelessness
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)
MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.
- MS-DRG 951 — OTHER FACTORS INFLUENCING HEALTH STATUS (MDC 23)
A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.
Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.
Official Registry Overview & Definition
Official Tabular Instructional Notes
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for Z59.811 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Inclusion Terms
Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.
- Imminent risk of homelessness
Excludes2 — Not Included Here
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
- problems related to upbringing (Z62.-)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to Z59.811 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- Z59.7 — Insufficient social insurance and welfare support
- Z59.71 — Insufficient health insurance coverage
- Z59.72 — Insufficient welfare support
- Z59.8 — Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances
- Z59.81 — Housing instability, housed
- Z59.812 — Housing instability, housed, homelessness in past 12 months
- Z59.819 — Housing instability, housed unspecified
- Z59.82 — Transportation insecurity
- Z59.86 — Financial insecurity
- Z59.861 — Financial insecurity, difficulty paying for utilities
Indexed Clinical Terms (2)
Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.
- Instability, housing, housed, with risk of homelessness
- Risk, for, homelessness, imminent