Z59.82

Z59.82: Transportation insecurity

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Z59.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for transportation insecurity. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist

The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.

unavailability and inaccessibility of healthcare facilities (Z75.3)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

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

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z59.82

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on Z59: Problems related to housing and economic circumstances

problems related to upbringing (Z62.-)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

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

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Z59.8