V49.8 — Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents
V49.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents. 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
Other codes that can never be billed with V49.8
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V49.8. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V49.8 alone.
Risk adjustment
V49.8 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 V49.8
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V49. If V49.8 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
- V49.3Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified 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
- V49.9Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified traffic accident
Questions about V49.8
- Is V49.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V49.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V49.8 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Car occupant injured in transport accident (V40-V49).