V29.99 — Rider (driver) (passenger) of other motorcycle injured in unspecified traffic accident
V29.99 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for rider (driver) (passenger) of other motorcycle injured in unspecified 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 V29
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Motorcycle accident NOS
Risk adjustment
V29.99 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 V29.99 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 V29.99.
- Accident›transport›motorcycle
Code to one of these instead V29.99
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V29.99XARider (driver) (passenger) of other motorcycle injured in unspecified traffic accident, initial encounter
- V29.99XDRider (driver) (passenger) of other motorcycle injured in unspecified traffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V29.99XSRider (driver) (passenger) of other motorcycle injured in unspecified traffic accident, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V29.9. If V29.99 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V29.99
- Is V29.99 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V29.99 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V29.99 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Motorcycle rider injured in transport accident (V20-V29).