ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V30-V39 › V38.4 Person boarding or alighting a... › V38.4XXA
Person boarding or alighting a three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident, initial encounter
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Person boarding or alighting a three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident, 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 V38 Occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V38
Includes
- fall or thrown from three-wheeled motor vehicle
- overturning of three-wheeled motor vehicle NOS
- overturning of three-wheeled motor vehicle without collision
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.
- Accident > vehicle NEC > three-wheeled NEC
- Accident > motor vehicle NOS > three-wheeled NOS
- Accident > transport > occupant > three-wheeled vehicle
- Accident > transport > three-wheeled motor vehicle occupant > noncollision accident > while boarding or alighting
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| V38.4XXD | Person boarding or alighting a three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident, subsequent encounter | Valid |
| V38.4XXS | Person boarding or alighting a three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident, sequela | Valid |