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Diagnosis Code

Z55.3 UNDERACHIEVEMENT IN SCHOOL


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: Z55.3

Short Description: Underachievement in school

Long Description: Underachievement in school

The code Z55.3 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00–Z99)
    • Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
      • Problems related to education and literacy (Z55)
        • Z55.3 Underachievement in school

This code is valid for unacceptable principal diagnosis

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Academic underachievement
  • Academic underachievement disorder
  • Behavioral and emotional disorder with onset in childhood
  • Deterioration in school performance
  • Education unsatisfactory
  • Educational problem
  • Educational problem
  • Educational problem
  • Educational problem
  • Educationally subnormal
  • Failure to achieve expected academic level
  • Failure to attain keystage of national curriculum
  • Failure to maintain previous academic level
  • Remediated
  • Repetition of grade
  • School maladjustment
  • School maladjustment
  • School maladjustment
  • School maladjustment
  • Severely educationally subnormal

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
Z55.3 Right Arrow V62.3 Educational circumstance

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
Z55 Problems related to education and literacy
Z55.0 Illiteracy and low-level literacy
Z55.1 Schooling unavailable and unattainable
Z55.2 Failed school examinations
Z55.4 Educational maladjustment and discord with teachers and classmates
Z55.5 Less than a high school diploma
Z55.6 Problems related to health literacy
Z55.8 Other problems related to education and literacy
Z55.9 Problems related to education and literacy, unspecified

This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023

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