V34.6 — Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident
V34.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle 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 V34
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
V34.6 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 V34.6 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 V34.6.
- Accident›transport›three-wheeled motor vehicle occupant›passenger›collision›bus(traffic)
- Accident›transport›three-wheeled motor vehicle occupant›passenger›collision›truck(traffic)
Code to one of these instead V34.6
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V34.6XXAPassenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, initial encounter
- V34.6XXDPassenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V34.6XXSPassenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V34. If V34.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V34.0Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in nontraffic accident
- V34.1Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in nontraffic accident
- V34.2Person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in nontraffic accident
- V34.3Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in nontraffic accident
- V34.4Person boarding or alighting a three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus
- V34.5Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident
- V34.7Person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident
- V34.9Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident
Questions about V34.6
- Is V34.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V34.6 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V34.6 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in transport accident (V30-V39).