V39.3 — Occupant (driver) (passenger) of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in unspecified nontraffic accident
V39.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for occupant (driver) (passenger) of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in unspecified nontraffic 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 V39
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Accident NOS involving three-wheeled motor vehicle, nontraffic
- Occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in nontraffic accident NOS
Risk adjustment
V39.3 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 V39.3 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 V39.3.
- Accident›transport›three-wheeled motor vehicle occupant›nontraffic
Code to one of these instead V39.3
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V39.3XXAOccupant (driver) (passenger) of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, initial encounter
- V39.3XXDOccupant (driver) (passenger) of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V39.3XXSOccupant (driver) (passenger) of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V39. If V39.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V39.0Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V39.1Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V39.2Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V39.4Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V39.5Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V39.6Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V39.8Occupant (driver) (passenger) of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in other specified transport accidents
- V39.9Occupant (driver) (passenger) of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in unspecified traffic accident
Questions about V39.3
- Is V39.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V39.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V39.3 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).