Z59.82
Transportation insecurity
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 2 never code together
Instructional notes 10
Z59.82code
Inclusion terms
- Excessive transportation time
- Inaccessible transportation
- Inadequate transportation
- Lack of transportation
- Unaffordable transportation
- Unreliable transportation
- Unsafe transportation
Z00-Z99chapter
Notes
- 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:Z00-Z99A00-Y89
- (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.
- (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.
Index entries leading here 8
- Excess, excessive, excessively
- transportation time Z59.82
- Inaccessible, inaccessibility
- transportation Z59.82
- Inadequate, inadequacy
- transportation Z59.82
- Insecurity
- transportation Z59.82
- Lack of
- transportation Z59.82
- Unaffordable transportation Z59.82
- Unreliable transportation Z59.82
- Unsafe transportation Z59.82
Alongside this code 4 same parent — Z59.8
Additional references
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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.