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V97.0

V97.0: Occupant of aircraft injured in other specified air transport accidents

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V97.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for occupant of aircraft injured in other specified air transport accidents. 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 V97

A
initial encounter
D
subsequent encounter
S
sequela

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

  • accident while boarding or alighting aircraft (V97.1)

Inclusion terms

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

  • Fall in, on or from aircraft in air transport accident

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Fall, falling›from, off, out of›aircraft NEC(with accident to aircraft NEC)
  • Fall, falling›in, on›aircraft NEC
  • Fall, falling›in, on›aircraft NEC›with accident to aircraft
  • Accident›transport›aircraft NEC›occupant injured›specified accident NEC
  • Accident›transport›aircraft NEC›person›falling from, in or on aircraft

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead V97.0

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under V97

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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