Z59.82
Transportation insecurity
This code does not map to a risk-adjusting HCC in the loaded models.
Coding notes
Excludes 1 never coded together · Excludes 2 may co-exist
unavailability and inaccessibility of healthcare facilities (Z75.3)
Excessive transportation time Inaccessible transportation Inadequate transportation Lack of transportation Unaffordable transportation Unreliable transportation Unsafe transportation
problems related to upbringing (Z62.-)
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: (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.
Official Guidelines for Z59.82
FY 2026 ›Sections that reference Z59.82
- I.B.19.dUse of Z codesConventions & general rules
… Possible applicable Z codes include: Z59.0-, Homelessness Z59.1, Inadequate housing Z59.5, Extreme poverty Z75.1, Person awaiting admission to adequate facility …
- I.C.21.c.17)Social Determinants of Health
… off by a clinician) that the patient expressed concerns with access and availability of food would support assignment of code Z59.41, Food insecurity. …
- I.B.3Code or codes from A00.0 through T88.9, Z00-Z99.8, U00-U85Conventions & general rules
The appropriate code or codes from A00.0 through T88.9, Z00-Z99.8, and U00-U85 must be used to identify diagnoses, symptoms, conditions, problems, complaints or other reason(s) for the …
- I.C.20.a.1)Used with any code in the range of A00.0-T88.9, Z00-Z99Chapter 20
An external cause code may be used with any code in the range of A00.0-T88.9, Z00-Z99, classification that represents a health condition due to an external cause. …
- I.C.21.c.13)Miscellaneous Z Codes
… Oral health risk factors Z91.89 Other specified personal risk factors, not elsewhere classified See Section I.B.14. for Z55-Z65 Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances, documentation by clinicians …
- IV.BCodes from A00.0 through T88.9, Z00-Z99, U00-U85Outpatient services
The appropriate code(s) from A00.0 through T88.9, Z00-Z99 and U00-U85 must be used to identify diagnoses, symptoms, conditions, problems, complaints, or other reason(s) for the …
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