Person injured in unspecified nonmotor-vehicle accident, 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:

V89.1XXA Person injured in unspecified nonmotor-vehicle accident, nontraffic, initial encounter
V89.1XXD Person injured in unspecified nonmotor-vehicle accident, nontraffic, subsequent encounter
V89.1XXS Person injured in unspecified nonmotor-vehicle accident, 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.

FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Person injured in unspecified nonmotor-vehicle accident, 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 V89 Motor- or nonmotor-vehicle accident, type of vehicle unspecified

Seventh character required

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V89

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 > nonmotor vehicle NOS

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
V89.0	Person injured in unspecified motor-vehicle accident, nontraffic	Not billable
V89.2	Person injured in unspecified motor-vehicle accident, traffic	Not billable
V89.3	Person injured in unspecified nonmotor-vehicle accident, traffic	Not billable
V89.9	Person injured in unspecified vehicle accident	Not billable