Is V97.810 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

No. V97.810 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.

Where does V97.810 sit in the tabular list?

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

What cannot be coded together with V97.810?

V97.810 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above V97.810 (V97.8) and apply to it just the same.

V97.810

V97.810 — Civilian aircraft involved in air transport accident with military aircraft

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V97.810 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for civilian aircraft involved in air transport accident with 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

Inclusion terms

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

Passenger in civilian aircraft injured due to accident with military aircraft

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above V97.810

These are not written on V97.810, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing V97.810 with anything listed here is a denial.

Written on V97.8 — Other air transport accidents, not elsewhere classified

aircraft accident NOS (V95.9)
exposure to changes in air pressure during ascent or descent (W94.-)

Risk adjustment

V97.810 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 V97.810 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 V97.810.

Accident›transport›aircraft NEC›military NEC›with civilian aircraft

Code history

V97.810 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.

Code to one of these instead V97.810

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share V97.81. If V97.810 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about V97.810

Is V97.810 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: No. V97.810 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
Where does V97.810 sit in the tabular list?: External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Air and space transport accidents (V95-V97).
What cannot be coded together with V97.810?: V97.810 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above V97.810 (V97.8) and apply to it just the same.