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V15.3

Person boarding or alighting a pedal cycle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • V15.3XXA Person boarding or alighting a pedal cycle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle, initial encounter
  • V15.3XXD Person boarding or alighting a pedal cycle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle, subsequent encounter
  • V15.3XXS Person boarding or alighting a pedal cycle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle, sequela

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Person boarding or alighting a pedal cycle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle

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 V15 Pedal cycle rider injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V15

Inherited from the V10-V19 section Pedal cycle rider injured in transport accident (V10-V19)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • rupture of pedal cycle tire (W37.0)

Includes

  • any non-motorized vehicle, excluding an animal-drawn vehicle, or a sidecar or trailer attached to the pedal cycle

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
V15.0 Pedal cycle driver injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident Not billable
V15.1 Pedal cycle passenger injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident Not billable
V15.2 Unspecified pedal cyclist injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident Not billable
V15.4 Pedal cycle driver injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident Not billable
V15.5 Pedal cycle passenger injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident Not billable
V15.9 Unspecified pedal cyclist injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident Not billable