V04.131 — Pedestrian on standing electric scooter injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident
V04.131 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pedestrian on standing electric scooter injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic 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 V04
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
V04.131 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 V04.131 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 V04.131.
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›standing›electric scooter›collision with›bus or heavy transport›traffic
Code to one of these instead V04.131
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V04.131APedestrian on standing electric scooter injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, initial encounter
- V04.131DPedestrian on standing electric scooter injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V04.131SPedestrian on standing electric scooter injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V04.13. If V04.131 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V04.131
- Is V04.131 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V04.131 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V04.131 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Pedestrian injured in transport accident (V00-V09).