V59.9 — Occupant (driver) (passenger) of pick-up truck or van injured in unspecified traffic accident
V59.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for occupant (driver) (passenger) of pick-up truck or van injured in unspecified 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 V59
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Accident NOS involving pick-up truck or van
Risk adjustment
V59.9 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 V59.9 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 V59.9.
- Accident›transport›pickup truck occupant
- Accident›transport›van occupant
Code to one of these instead V59.9
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V59.9XXAOccupant (driver) (passenger) of pick-up truck or van injured in unspecified traffic accident, initial encounter
- V59.9XXDOccupant (driver) (passenger) of pick-up truck or van injured in unspecified traffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V59.9XXSOccupant (driver) (passenger) of pick-up truck or van injured in unspecified traffic accident, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V59. If V59.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V59.0Driver of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V59.1Passenger in pick-up truck or van injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V59.2Unspecified occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V59.3Occupant (driver) (passenger) of pick-up truck or van injured in unspecified nontraffic accident
- V59.4Driver of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V59.5Passenger in pick-up truck or van injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V59.6Unspecified occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V59.8Occupant (driver) (passenger) of pick-up truck or van injured in other specified transport accidents
Questions about V59.9
- Is V59.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V59.9 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V59.9 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).