Is V95.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

No. V95.9 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.

Where does V95.9 sit in the tabular list?

External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Air and space transport accidents (V95-V97).

V95.9

V95.9 — Unspecified aircraft accident injuring occupant

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V95.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified aircraft accident injuring occupant. 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 V95

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Aircraft accident NOS
Air transport accident NOS

Other codes that can never be billed with V95.9

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V95.9. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V95.9 alone.

V97.8Other air transport accidents, not elsewhere classified

Risk adjustment

V95.9 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 V95.9 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 V95.9.

Crash›aircraft(in transit) (powered)
Explosion›aircraft NEC(in transit) (powered)
Accident›transport›occupant›aircraft(powered)
Accident›transport›aircraft NEC›occupant injured›powered craft accident

Code to one of these instead V95.9

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share V95. If V95.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about V95.9

Is V95.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: No. V95.9 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
Where does V95.9 sit in the tabular list?: External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Air and space transport accidents (V95-V97).