Z59.82

Transportation insecurity

Billable / specificPOA exempt

Z59.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Excessive transportation time
  • Inaccessible transportation
  • Inadequate transportation
  • Lack of transportation
  • Unaffordable transportation
  • Unreliable transportation
  • Unsafe transportation

Includes (from Z59)

  • Note: Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
  • Note: (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
  • Note: (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • unavailability and inaccessibility of healthcare facilities (Z75.3)
  • problems related to upbringing (Z62.-) (from Z59)

Also known as

  • Excessive transportation time
  • Inaccessible transportation
  • Inadequate transportation
  • Lack of transportation
  • Unaffordable transportation
  • Unreliable transportation
  • Unsafe transportation
  • Excess, excessive, excessively, transportation time
  • Inaccessible, inaccessibility, transportation
  • Inadequate, inadequacy, transportation
  • Insecurity, transportation
  • Lack of, transportation

Parent code

  • Z59.8Other problems related to housing and economic circumstancesHeader

Related codes

  • Z59.81Housing instability, housedHeader
  • Z59.86Financial insecurityHeader
  • Z59.87Material hardship due to limited financial resources, not elsewhere classifiedBillable
  • Z59.89Other problems related to housing and economic circumstancesBillable

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