V05
V05 — Pedestrian injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
V05 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pedestrian injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle. 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 V05
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
V05 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 to one of these instead V05
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V05.0Pedestrian injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident
- V05.1Pedestrian injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident
- V05.9Pedestrian injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle, unspecified whether traffic or nontraffic accident
Questions about V05
- Is V05 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V05 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V05 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Pedestrian injured in transport accident (V00-V09).