V37.5 — Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in traffic accident
V37.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object 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 V37
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
V37.5 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 V37.5 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 V37.5.
- Accident›transport›three-wheeled motor vehicle occupant›driver›collision›stationary object(traffic)
Code to one of these instead V37.5
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V37.5XXADriver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in traffic accident, initial encounter
- V37.5XXDDriver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V37.5XXSDriver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in traffic accident, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V37. If V37.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V37.0Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in nontraffic accident
- V37.1Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in nontraffic accident
- V37.2Person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in nontraffic accident
- V37.3Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in nontraffic accident
- V37.4Person boarding or alighting a three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object
- V37.6Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in traffic accident
- V37.7Person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in traffic accident
- V37.9Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in traffic accident
Questions about V37.5
- Is V37.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V37.5 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V37.5 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).