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V34.5

Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident

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:

  • V34.5XXA Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, initial encounter
  • V34.5XXD Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
  • V34.5XXS Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, 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 Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident

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 V34 Occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V34

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with military vehicle (V39.81)

Inherited from the V30-V39 section Occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in transport accident (V30-V39)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • all-terrain vehicles (V86.-)
  • motorcycle with sidecar (V20-V29)
  • vehicle designed primarily for off-road use (V86.-)

Includes

  • motorized tricycle
  • motorized rickshaw
  • three-wheeled motor car

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
V34.0 Driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in nontraffic accident Not billable
V34.1 Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in nontraffic accident Not billable
V34.2 Person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in nontraffic accident Not billable
V34.3 Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in nontraffic accident Not billable
V34.4 Person boarding or alighting a three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus Not billable
V34.6 Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident Not billable
V34.7 Person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident Not billable
V34.9 Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident Not billable