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V68

Occupant of heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport 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 9 more specific codes instead:

  • V68.0 Driver of heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (also a header)
  • V68.1 Passenger in heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (also a header)
  • V68.2 Person on outside of heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (also a header)
  • V68.3 Unspecified occupant of heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (also a header)
  • V68.4 Person boarding or alighting a heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident (also a header)
  • V68.5 Driver of heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (also a header)
  • V68.6 Passenger in heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (also a header)
  • V68.7 Person on outside of heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (also a header)
  • V68.9 Unspecified occupant of heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (also a header)

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

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Occupant of heavy transport vehicle injured in noncollision transport 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.

This code

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V68

Includes

  • overturning heavy transport vehicle NOS
  • overturning heavy transport vehicle without collision

Inherited from the V60-V69 section Occupant of heavy transport vehicle injured in transport accident (V60-V69)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • bus
  • motorcoach

Includes

  • 18 wheeler
  • armored car
  • panel truck