V81.82 — Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to object falling onto train
V81.82 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to object falling onto train. 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to falling earth onto train
- Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to falling rocks onto train
- Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to falling snow onto train
- Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to falling trees onto train
Risk adjustment
V81.82 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 V81.82 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 V81.82.
- Accident›transport›railway vehicle occupant›object falling onto train
Code to one of these instead V81.82
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V81.82XAOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to object falling onto train, initial encounter
- V81.82XDOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to object falling onto train, subsequent encounter
- V81.82XSOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to object falling onto train, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V81.8. If V81.82 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V81.82
- Is V81.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V81.82 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V81.82 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Other land transport accidents (V80-V89).