V82.9 — Occupant of streetcar injured in unspecified traffic accident
V82.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for occupant of streetcar 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 V82
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Streetcar accident NOS
Risk adjustment
V82.9 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 V82.9 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 V82.9.
- Accident›transport›streetcar occupant
Code to one of these instead V82.9
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V82. If V82.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V82.0Occupant of streetcar injured in collision with motor vehicle in nontraffic accident
- V82.1Occupant of streetcar injured in collision with motor vehicle in traffic accident
- V82.2Occupant of streetcar injured in collision with or hit by rolling stock
- V82.3Occupant of streetcar injured in collision with other object
- V82.4Person injured while boarding or alighting from streetcar
- V82.5Occupant of streetcar injured by fall in streetcar
- V82.6Occupant of streetcar injured by fall from streetcar
- V82.7Occupant of streetcar injured in derailment without antecedent collision
- V82.8Occupant of streetcar injured in other specified transport accidents
Questions about V82.9
- Is V82.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V82.9 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V82.9 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Other land transport accidents (V80-V89).