V49.3 — Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident
V49.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for car occupant (driver) (passenger) 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 V49
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Car accident NOS, nontraffic
- Car occupant injured in nontraffic accident NOS
Risk adjustment
V49.3 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 V49.3 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 V49.3.
- Accident›transport›car occupant›nontraffic
Code to one of these instead V49.3
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V49.3XXACar occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, initial encounter
- V49.3XXDCar occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V49.3XXSCar occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V49. If V49.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V49.0Driver injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V49.1Passenger injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V49.2Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V49.4Driver injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V49.5Passenger injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V49.6Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V49.8Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents
- V49.9Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified traffic accident
Questions about V49.3
- Is V49.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V49.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V49.3 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Car occupant injured in transport accident (V40-V49).