V00.831 — Fall from motorized mobility scooter
V00.831 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for fall from motorized mobility scooter. 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.
- fall from non-moving motorized mobility scooter (W05.2)
Other codes that can never be billed with V00.831
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V00.831. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V00.831 alone.
- W05Fall from non-moving wheelchair, nonmotorized scooter and motorized mobility scooter
Risk adjustment
V00.831 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 V00.831 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 V00.831.
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›motorized mobility scooter›fall from
Code to one of these instead V00.831
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V00.83. If V00.831 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V00.831
- Is V00.831 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V00.831 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V00.831 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 V00.831?
- V00.831 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.