ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V80-V89 › V81.8 Occupant of railway train or... › V81.89
Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to other specified railway 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.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- V81.89XA Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to other specified railway accident, initial encounter
- V81.89XD Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to other specified railway accident, subsequent encounter
- V81.89XS Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to other specified railway 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to other specified railway 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 V81 Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in transport accident
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
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 > railway vehicle
- Accident > transport > occupant > train
- Accident > transport > occupant > railway
- Derailment > railway > with antecedent collision
- Fall, falling > in, on > train > with antecedent collision
- Fall, falling > in, on > train > during derailment > with antecedent collision
- Fall, falling > from, off, out of > train NEC > during derailment > with antecedent collision
- Exposure > fire, flames > in, of, on, starting in > railway rolling stock, train, vehicle > with collision
- Accident > transport > railway vehicle occupant > specified type NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| V81.81 | Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to explosion or fire on train | Not billable |
| V81.82 | Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to object falling onto train | Not billable |
| V81.83 | Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to collision with military vehicle | Not billable |