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.