V60.4 NO FAMILY ABLE TO CARE

Code Information

Diagnosis Code: V60.4
Short Description: No family able to care
Long Description: No other household member able to render care
Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Code Classification

Supplementary classification of factors influencing health status and contact with health services (E)
- Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (V60-V69)
  - V60 Housing, household, and economic circumstances
    - V60.4 No family able to care

Synonyms

Parent is handicapped
Relatives unable to care for patient
Spouse is handicapped
Spouse unable to care for patient

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code V60.4 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

Care (of)
- family member (handicapped) (sick)
  - unavailable, due to
    - absence (person rendering care) (sufferer) V60.4
    - inability (any reason) of person rendering care V60.4
- unavailable, due to
  - absence of person rendering care V60.4
  - inability (any reason) of person rendering care V60.4

Health
- services provided because (of)
  - no care available in home V60.4

Inadequate, inadequacy
- household care, due to
  - family member
    - handicapped or ill V60.4
    - temporarily away from home V60.4
      - on vacation V60.5
  - temporary absence from home of person rendering care V60.4

Lack of
- care
  - in home V60.4
- person able to render necessary care V60.4

Living
- alone V60.3
  - with handicapped person V60.4

Person (with)
- living (in)
  - without
    - person able to render necessary care V60.4

Crosswalk Information

The code V60.4 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

ICD-9 Code		ICD-10 Code	ICD-10 Description
V60.4		Z74.2	Need for assist at home & no house memb able to render care

This ICD-9 to ICD-10 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-9 Code	ICD-9 Description
V60.0	Lack of housing
V60.1	Inadequate housing
V60.2	Inadequate material resources
V60.3	Person living alone
V60.5	Holiday relief care
V60.6	Person living in residential institution
V60.81	Foster care (status)
V60.89	Other specified housing or economic circumstances
V60.9	Unspecified housing or economic circumstance

This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014

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