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V09.20XA

Pedestrian injured in traffic accident involving unspecified motor vehicles, initial encounter

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Pedestrian injured in traffic accident involving unspecified motor vehicles, initial encounter

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from V09 Pedestrian injured in other and unspecified transport accidents

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V09

Inherited from the V00-V09 section Pedestrian injured in transport accident (V00-V09)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • fall due to non-transport collision with other person (W03)
  • pedestrian on foot falling (slipping) on ice and snow (W00.-)
  • struck or bumped by another person (W51)

Includes

  • person changing tire on transport vehicle
  • person examining engine of vehicle broken down in (on side of) road

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Showing 40 of 61 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
V09.20XD Pedestrian injured in traffic accident involving unspecified motor vehicles, subsequent encounter Valid
V09.20XS Pedestrian injured in traffic accident involving unspecified motor vehicles, sequela Valid