ICD-10-CM code "Z62.21": Child in welfare custody (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeZ62.21
DescriptionChild in welfare custody
Hierarchy
  1. Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
  2. Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
  3. Problems related to upbringing (Z62)
  4. Upbringing away from parents (Z62.2)
  5. Child in welfare custody (Z62.21)
Billable statusICD-10-CM Billable code

Excludes

  1. Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
  2. Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
  3. Problems related to upbringing (Z62)

    Type 2maltreatment syndrome (T74.-)

    Type 2problems related to housing and economic circumstances (Z59.-)

  4. Upbringing away from parents (Z62.2)

    Type 1problems with boarding school (Z59.3)

  5. Child in welfare custody (Z62.21)

Includes

  1. Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
  2. Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
  3. Problems related to upbringing (Z62)

    Includescurrent and past negative life events in childhood

    Includescurrent and past problems of a child related to upbringing

  4. Upbringing away from parents (Z62.2)
  5. Child in welfare custody (Z62.21)