V00.81 — Accident with wheelchair (powered)
V00.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for accident with wheelchair (powered). 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 inherited from the categories above V00.81
These are not written on V00.81, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing V00.81 with anything listed here is a denial.
Written on V00 — Pedestrian conveyance accident
- collision with another person without fall (W51)
- fall due to person on foot colliding with another person on foot (W03)
- fall from non-moving wheelchair, nonmotorized scooter and motorized mobility scooter without collision (W05.-)
- pedestrian (conveyance) collision with other land transport vehicle (V01-V09)
- pedestrian on foot falling (slipping) on ice and snow (W00.-)
Other codes that can never be billed with V00.81
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V00.81. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V00.81 alone.
Risk adjustment
V00.81 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.
Code history
V00.81 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Code to one of these instead V00.81
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V00.8. If V00.81 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V00.81
- Is V00.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V00.81 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V00.81 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 V00.81?
- V00.81 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above V00.81 (V00) and apply to it just the same.