T75.3 — Motion sickness
T75.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for motion sickness. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T75
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Use additional code
Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.
- external cause code to identify vehicle or type of motion (Y92.81-)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Airsickness
- Seasickness
- Travel sickness
Risk adjustment
T75.3 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How T75.3 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to T75.3.
- Airplane sickness
- Car sickness
- Car sickness
- Mal de mer
- Motion sickness(from travel, any vehicle) (from roundabouts or swings)
- Motion sickness
- Seasickness
- Seasickness
- Train sickness
- Travel(effects) (sickness)
- Air›sickness
- Effect, adverse›motion
Code to one of these instead T75.3
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share T75. If T75.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about T75.3
- Is T75.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T75.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T75.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Other and unspecified effects of external causes (T66-T78).