V60.5 — Driver of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident
V60.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for driver of heavy transport vehicle 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 V60
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
V60.5 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 V60.5 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 V60.5.
- Accident›transport›truck occupant›driver›collision›animal(traffic)
Code to one of these instead V60.5
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V60.5XXADriver of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident, initial encounter
- V60.5XXDDriver of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V60.5XXSDriver of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V60. If V60.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V60.0Driver of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in nontraffic accident
- V60.1Passenger in heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in nontraffic accident
- V60.2Person on outside of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in nontraffic accident
- V60.3Unspecified occupant of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in nontraffic accident
- V60.4Person boarding or alighting a heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal
- V60.6Passenger in heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident
- V60.7Person on outside of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident
- V60.9Unspecified occupant of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with pedestrian or animal in traffic accident
Questions about V60.5
- Is V60.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V60.5 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V60.5 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Occupant of heavy transport vehicle injured in transport accident (V60-V69).