V50.5 — Driver of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident
V50.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for driver of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal 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 V50
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
V50.5 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 V50.5 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 V50.5.
- Accident›transport›pickup truck occupant›driver›collision›animal(traffic)
- Accident›transport›van occupant›driver›collision›animal(traffic)
Code to one of these instead V50.5
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V50.5XXADriver of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident, initial encounter
- V50.5XXDDriver of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V50.5XXSDriver of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V50. If V50.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V50.0Driver of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in nontraffic accident
- V50.1Passenger in pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in nontraffic accident
- V50.2Person on outside of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in nontraffic accident
- V50.3Unspecified occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in nontraffic accident
- V50.4Person boarding or alighting a pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal
- V50.6Passenger in pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident
- V50.7Person on outside of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident
- V50.9Unspecified occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident
Questions about V50.5
- Is V50.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V50.5 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V50.5 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in transport accident (V50-V59).