Diagnosis Code

Z59.82 TRANSPORTATION INSECURITY


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: Z59.82

Short Description: Transportation insecurity

Long Description: Transportation insecurity

The code Z59.82 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00–Z99)
    • Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
      • Problems related to housing and economic circumstances (Z59)
        • Z59.82 Transportation insecurity

This code is valid for unacceptable principal diagnosis

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Distance to destination limits available transportation options
  • Inability to access community resources due to transportation insecurity
  • Inability to access health care due to transportation insecurity
  • Lack of access to transportation
  • Transport distance too great
  • Transport problem
  • Transport problem
  • Transportation insecurity
  • Transportation insecurity due to excessive travel time to destination
  • Transportation insecurity due to no access to vehicle
  • Transportation insecurity due to no driver's license
  • Transportation insecurity due to route not serviced by public transportation
  • Transportation insecurity due to unaffordable transportation
  • Transportation insecurity due to unsafe transportation environment
  • Transportation insecurity limiting access to food

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code Z59.82 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Inclusion Terms:
    • Excessive transportation time
    • Inaccessible transportation
    • Inadequate transportation
    • Lack of transportation
    • Unaffordable transportation
    • Unreliable transportation
    • Unsafe transportation
  • Type 2 Excludes Notes:
    • unavailability and inaccessibility of healthcare facilities (@Z75.3*)

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
Z59 Problems related to housing and economic circumstances
Z59.0 Homelessness
Z59.00 Homelessness unspecified
Z59.01 Sheltered homelessness
Z59.02 Unsheltered homelessness
Z59.1 Inadequate housing
Z59.10 Inadequate housing, unspecified
Z59.11 Inadequate housing environmental temperature
Z59.12 Inadequate housing utilities
Z59.19 Other inadequate housing
Z59.2 Discord with neighbors, lodgers and landlord
Z59.3 Problems related to living in residential institution
Z59.4 Lack of adequate food
Z59.41 Food insecurity
Z59.48 Other specified lack of adequate food
Z59.5 Extreme poverty
Z59.6 Low income
Z59.7 Insufficient social insurance and welfare support
Z59.8 Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances
Z59.81 Housing instability, housed
Z59.811 Housing instability, housed, with risk of homelessness
Z59.812 Housing instability, housed, homelessness in past 12 months
Z59.819 Housing instability, housed unspecified
Z59.86 Financial insecurity
Z59.87 Material hardship due to limited financial resources, not elsewhere classified
Z59.89 Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances
Z59.9 Problem related to housing and economic circumstances, unspecified


This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023