ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V80-V89 › V88 Nontraffic accident of specified... › V88.8

V88.8

Person injured in other specified noncollision transport accidents involving motor vehicle, nontraffic

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:

  • V88.8XXA Person injured in other specified noncollision transport accidents involving motor vehicle, nontraffic, initial encounter
  • V88.8XXD Person injured in other specified noncollision transport accidents involving motor vehicle, nontraffic, subsequent encounter
  • V88.8XXS Person injured in other specified noncollision transport accidents involving motor vehicle, nontraffic, 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 Person injured in other specified noncollision transport accidents involving motor vehicle, nontraffic

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 V88 Nontraffic accident of specified type but victim's mode of transport unknown

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V88

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • collision involving:
  • pedal cycle (V10-V19)
  • pedestrian (V01-V09)

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
V88.0 Person injured in collision between car and two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle, nontraffic Not billable
V88.1 Person injured in collision between other motor vehicle and two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle, nontraffic Not billable
V88.2 Person injured in collision between car and pick-up truck or van, nontraffic Not billable
V88.3 Person injured in collision between car and bus, nontraffic Not billable
V88.4 Person injured in collision between car and heavy transport vehicle, nontraffic Not billable
V88.5 Person injured in collision between heavy transport vehicle and bus, nontraffic Not billable
V88.6 Person injured in collision between railway train or railway vehicle and car, nontraffic Not billable
V88.7 Person injured in collision between other specified motor vehicle, nontraffic Not billable
V88.9 Person injured in other specified (collision)(noncollision) transport accidents involving nonmotor vehicle, nontraffic Not billable