V04.99 — Pedestrian with other conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
V04.99 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pedestrian with other conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Pedestrian with baby stroller injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
- Pedestrian on ice-skates injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
- Pedestrian on nonmotorized scooter injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
- Pedestrian on sled injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
- Pedestrian on snowboard injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
- Pedestrian on snow-skis injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
- Pedestrian in wheelchair (powered) injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
- Pedestrian in motorized mobility scooter injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
Risk adjustment
V04.99 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 V04.99 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 V04.99.
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›baby stroller›collision›bus or heavy transport
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›flat-bottomed NEC›collision›bus or heavy transport
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›gliding type NEC›collision›bus or heavy transport
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›ice skates›collision›bus or heavy transport
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›rolling type NEC›collision›bus or heavy transport
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›scooter›collision›bus or heavy transport
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›skis›collision›bus or heavy transport
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›sled›collision›bus or heavy transport
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›snow board›collision›bus or heavy transport
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›specified type NEC›collision›bus or heavy transport
- Accident›transport›pedestrian›conveyance›wheelchair›collision›bus or heavy transport
Code to one of these instead V04.99
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V04.99XAPedestrian with other conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident, initial encounter
- V04.99XDPedestrian with other conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V04.99XSPedestrian with other conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V04.9. If V04.99 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V04.90Pedestrian on foot injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
- V04.91Pedestrian on roller-skates injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
- V04.92Pedestrian on skateboard injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
- V04.93Pedestrian on standing micro-mobility pedestrian conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
Questions about V04.99
- Is V04.99 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V04.99 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V04.99 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Pedestrian injured in transport accident (V00-V09).