V46.9

V46.9: Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other nonmotor vehicle in traffic accident

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V46.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other nonmotor vehicle 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 V46

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Other codes that can never be billed with V46.9

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

V40Car occupant injured in collision with pedestrian or animal

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›collision›animal-drawn vehicle(traffic)
Accident›transport›car occupant›collision›specified vehicle NEC(traffic)
Accident›transport›car occupant›collision›streetcar(traffic)
Accident›transport›car occupant›collision›animal›being ridden(traffic)

V46.9: Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other nonmotor vehicle in traffic accident

This code requires a 7th character

Other codes that can never be billed with V46.9

Risk adjustment

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Code history

Code to one of these instead V46.9

Other codes under V46