ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V95-V97 › V97 Other specified air transport accidents › V97.1
Person injured while boarding or alighting from aircraft
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:
- V97.1XXA Person injured while boarding or alighting from aircraft, initial encounter
- V97.1XXD Person injured while boarding or alighting from aircraft, subsequent encounter
- V97.1XXS Person injured while boarding or alighting from aircraft, 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 while boarding or alighting from aircraft
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 V97 Other specified air transport accidents
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V97
Inherited from the V95-V97 section Air and space transport accidents (V95-V97)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- military aircraft accidents in military or war operations (Y36, Y37)
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 > aircraft
- Broken > glass, contact with
- Accident > transport > occupant > helicopter
- Accident > transport > occupant > microlight
- Accident > transport > occupant > ultralight
- Parachute descent > due to accident to aircraft
- Descent > parachute > due to accident to aircraft
- Accident > transport > occupant > glider > powered
- Accident > transport > occupant > spacecraft, spaceship
- Accident > transport > parachutist > after accident to aircraft
- Accident > transport > occupant > aircraft > fixed wing > private
- Accident > transport > occupant > aircraft > fixed wing > commercial
- Fall, falling > in, on > aircraft NEC > while boarding or alighting
- Fall, falling > from, off, out of > aircraft NEC > while boarding or alighting
- Accident > transport > aircraft NEC > person > while boarding or alighting aircraft
- Accident > transport > aircraft NEC > occupant injured > while boarding or alighting
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| V97.0 | Occupant of aircraft injured in other specified air transport accidents | Not billable |
| V97.2 | Parachutist accident | Not billable |
| V97.3 | Person on ground injured in air transport accident | Not billable |
| V97.8 | Other air transport accidents, not elsewhere classified | Not billable |