Is V00.138 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

No. V00.138 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.

Where does V00.138 sit in the tabular list?

External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Pedestrian injured in transport accident (V00-V09).

What cannot be coded together with V00.138?

V00.138 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.

V00.138

V00.138 — Other skateboard accident

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V00.138 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other skateboard accident. 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 V00

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Excludes1 — never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

skateboarder collision with other land transport vehicle (V01-V09 with 5th character 2)

Risk adjustment

V00.138 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 V00.138 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 V00.138.

Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›skateboard

Code to one of these instead V00.138

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share V00.13. If V00.138 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about V00.138

Is V00.138 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: No. V00.138 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
Where does V00.138 sit in the tabular list?: External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Pedestrian injured in transport accident (V00-V09).
What cannot be coded together with V00.138?: V00.138 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.