ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V50-V59 › V55 Occupant of pick-up truck or van... › V55.9

V55.9

Unspecified occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle 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:

  • V55.9XXA Unspecified occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident, initial encounter
  • V55.9XXD Unspecified occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
  • V55.9XXS Unspecified occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle 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 Unspecified occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle 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 V55 Occupant of pick-up truck or van 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 V55

Inherited from the V50-V59 section Occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in transport accident (V50-V59)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • heavy transport vehicle (V60-V69)

Includes

  • a four or six wheel motor vehicle designed primarily for carrying passengers and property but weighing less than the local limit for classification as a heavy goods vehicle
  • minibus
  • minivan
  • sport utility vehicle (SUV)
  • truck
  • van

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
V55.0 Driver of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident Not billable
V55.1 Passenger in pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident Not billable
V55.2 Person on outside of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident Not billable
V55.3 Unspecified occupant of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident Not billable
V55.4 Person boarding or alighting a pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle Not billable
V55.5 Driver of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident Not billable
V55.6 Passenger in pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident Not billable
V55.7 Person on outside of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident Not billable