2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z59.82
Transportation insecurity
- ICD-10-CM Code:
- Z59.82
- ICD-10 Code for:
- Transportation insecurity
- Is Billable?
- Yes - Valid for Submission
- Code Navigator:
Z59.82 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of transportation insecurity. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024. The code is exempt from present on admission (POA) reporting for inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals.
This code describes a circumstance which influences the patient's health status but not a current illness or injury. The code is unacceptable as a principal diagnosis.
Approximate Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- 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
Clinical Classification
Clinical Category is Socioeconomic/psychosocial factors
- CCSR Category Code: FAC019
- Inpatient Default CCSR: X - Not applicable.
- Outpatient Default CCSR: X - Not applicable.
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The following annotation back-references are applicable to this diagnosis code. The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10-CM codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with coding notes and guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more.
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion TermsThese terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
- Excessive transportation time
- Inaccessible transportation
- Inadequate transportation
- Lack of transportation
- Unaffordable transportation
- Unreliable transportation
- Unsafe transportation
Type 2 Excludes
Type 2 ExcludesA type 2 excludes note represents "Not included here". An excludes2 note indicates that the condition excluded is not part of the condition represented by the code, but a patient may have both conditions at the same time. When an Excludes2 note appears under a code, it is acceptable to use both the code and the excluded code together, when appropriate.
- unavailability and inaccessibility of healthcare facilities Z75.3
Index to Diseases and Injuries References
The following annotation back-references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index. The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10-CM code(s).
- - 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
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10-CM Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Unacceptable principal diagnosis - There are selected codes that describe a circumstance which influences an individual's health status but not a current illness or injury, or codes that are not specific manifestations but may be due to an underlying cause. These codes are considered unacceptable as a principal diagnosis.
Present on Admission (POA)
Z59.82 is exempt from POA reporting - The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement. Review other POA exempt codes here.
CMS POA Indicator Options and Definitions
| POA Indicator | Reason for Code | CMS will pay the CC/MCC DRG? |
|---|---|---|
| Y | Diagnosis was present at time of inpatient admission. | YES |
| N | Diagnosis was not present at time of inpatient admission. | NO |
| U | Documentation insufficient to determine if the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission. | NO |
| W | Clinically undetermined - unable to clinically determine whether the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission. | YES |
| 1 | Unreported/Not used - Exempt from POA reporting. | NO |
Replacement Code
Z5982 replaces the following previously assigned ICD-10-CM code(s):
- Z59.89 - Other problems related to housing and economic circumstances
Code History
- FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
- FY 2023 - Code Added, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023