V81.83 — Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to collision with military vehicle
V81.83 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to collision with military vehicle. 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 V81.83
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V81.83. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V81.83 alone.
- 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
V81.83 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 V81.83 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 V81.83.
- Accident›transport›railway vehicle occupant›collision›motor vehicle›military
Code to one of these instead V81.83
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V81.83XAOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to collision with military vehicle, initial encounter
- V81.83XDOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to collision with military vehicle, subsequent encounter
- V81.83XSOccupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to collision with military vehicle, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V81.8. If V81.83 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V81.83
- Is V81.83 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V81.83 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V81.83 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Other land transport accidents (V80-V89).