V81.8
V81.8: Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in other specified railway accidents
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
V81.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in other specified railway 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 V81
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Other codes that can never be billed with V81.8
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- V81.0Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in nontraffic accident
- V81.0XXAOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in nontraffic accident, initial encounter
- V81.0XXDOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V81.0XXSOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in nontraffic accident, sequela
- V81.1Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in traffic accident
- V81.1XXAOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in traffic accident, initial encounter
- V81.1XXDOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V81.1XXSOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in traffic accident, sequela
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead V81.8
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- V81.81Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to explosion or fire on train
- V81.82Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to object falling onto train
- V81.83Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to collision with military vehicle
- V81.89Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to other specified railway accident
Other codes under V81
- V81.0Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in nontraffic accident
- V81.1Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in traffic accident
- V81.2Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with or hit by rolling stock
- V81.3Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with other object
- V81.4Person injured while boarding or alighting from railway train or railway vehicle
- V81.5Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured by fall in railway train or railway vehicle
- V81.6Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured by fall from railway train or railway vehicle
- V81.7Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in derailment without antecedent collision
- V81.9Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in unspecified railway accident