V97.81 — Air transport accident involving military aircraft
V97.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for air transport accident involving military aircraft. 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
Other codes that can never be billed with V97.81
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V97.81. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V97.81 alone.
- Y37Military operations
Risk adjustment
V97.81 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.
Code to one of these instead V97.81
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V97.8. If V97.81 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V97.81
- Is V97.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V97.81 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V97.81 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Air and space transport accidents (V95-V97).