V35
V35 — Occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
V35 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle 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 V35
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
V35 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 V35
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- V35.0Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident
- V35.1Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident
- V35.2Person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident
- V35.3Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident
- V35.4Person boarding or alighting a three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle
- V35.5Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident
- V35.6Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident
- V35.7Person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident
- V35.9Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident
Questions about V35
- Is V35 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V35 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V35 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).