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V81

Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in 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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • V81.0 Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in nontraffic accident (also a header)
  • V81.1 Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in traffic accident (also a header)
  • V81.2 Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with or hit by rolling stock (also a header)
  • V81.3 Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with other object (also a header)
  • V81.4 Person injured while boarding or alighting from railway train or railway vehicle (also a header)
  • V81.5 Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured by fall in railway train or railway vehicle (also a header)
  • V81.6 Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured by fall from railway train or railway vehicle (also a header)
  • V81.7 Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in derailment without antecedent collision (also a header)
  • V81.8 Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in other specified railway accidents (also a header)
  • V81.9 Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in unspecified railway 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 railway train or railway vehicle injured in 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 V81

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • streetcar (V82.-)

Includes

  • derailment of railway train or railway vehicle
  • person on outside of train