ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V80-V89 › V89 Motor- or nonmotor-vehicle... › V89.9
Person injured in unspecified vehicle 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:
- V89.9XXA Person injured in unspecified vehicle accident, initial encounter
- V89.9XXD Person injured in unspecified vehicle accident, subsequent encounter
- V89.9XXS Person injured in unspecified vehicle 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 Person injured in unspecified vehicle 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 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.
- Broken > glass, contact with
- Collision NEC
- Accident > vehicle NEC
- Wreck transport vehicle NEC
- Crash > transport vehicle NEC
- Overturning > transport vehicle NEC
- Collision NEC > transport vehicle NEC
- Thrown > from > transport vehicle NEC
- Found injured > on > highway, road, street
- Trapped > by part of > transport vehicle NEC
- Accident > transport > occupant > vehicle NEC
- Fall, falling > from, off, out of > vehicle NEC
- Pushed, pushing > by other person > from > transport vehicle NEC
- Running off, away > highway, road, street > transport vehicle NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| V89.0 | Person injured in unspecified motor-vehicle accident, nontraffic | Not billable |
| V89.1 | Person injured in unspecified nonmotor-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 |