V44.6

V44.6: Car passenger injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V44.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for car passenger 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 V44

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above V44.6

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on V44: Car occupant injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus

car occupant injured in collision with military vehicle (V49.81)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Accident›transport›car occupant›passenger›collision›bus(traffic)
Accident›transport›car occupant›passenger›collision›truck(traffic)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead V44.6

3 child codes. Green means billable.