V89.9 — Person injured in unspecified vehicle accident
V89.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for person injured in unspecified vehicle 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 V89
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Collision NOS
Risk adjustment
V89.9 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 V89.9 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 V89.9.
- Collision NEC(accidental)
- Wreck transport vehicle NEC
- Accident›vehicle NEC
- Collision NEC›transport vehicle NEC
- Crash›transport vehicle NEC
- Overturning›transport vehicle NEC
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›vehicle NEC(in motion)
- Found injured›on›highway, road, street(way)
- Running off, away›highway, road, street›transport vehicle NEC
- Thrown›from›transport vehicle NEC
- Trapped›by part of›transport vehicle NEC
- Accident›transport›occupant›vehicle NEC
Code to one of these instead V89.9
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V89. If V89.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V89.9
- Is V89.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V89.9 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V89.9 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Other land transport accidents (V80-V89).