V43.4
V43.4 — Person boarding or alighting a car injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
V43.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for person boarding or alighting a car injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van. 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 V43
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
V43.4 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 V43.4
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- V43.41Person boarding or alighting a car injured in collision with sport utility vehicle
- V43.42Person boarding or alighting a car injured in collision with other type car
- V43.43Person boarding or alighting a car injured in collision with pick-up truck
- V43.44Person boarding or alighting a car injured in collision with van
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V43. If V43.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V43.0Car driver injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van in nontraffic accident
- V43.1Car passenger injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van in nontraffic accident
- V43.2Person on outside of car injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van in nontraffic accident
- V43.3Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van in nontraffic accident
- V43.5Car driver injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van in traffic accident
- V43.6Car passenger injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van in traffic accident
- V43.7Person on outside of car injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van in traffic accident
- V43.9Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van in traffic accident
Questions about V43.4
- Is V43.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V43.4 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V43.4 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Car occupant injured in transport accident (V40-V49).