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V04.138A vs V04.138S

V04.138A (Pedestrian on other standing micro-mobility pedestrian conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, initial encounter) compared with V04.138S (Pedestrian on other standing micro-mobility pedestrian conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, sequela), from the official CMS tabular data.

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Summary

No tabular note links these codes. Both belong to category V04, and nothing in the tabular list prevents reporting each when it is documented.

Registry fact
What is different?

Title wording.The titles share “Pedestrian on other standing micro-mobility pedestrian conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident”; V04.138A says “initial encounter” where V04.138S says “sequela”.

Registry fact

Nothing found in 7 other checks
Can these codes be reported together?

No instruction prevents it.No note in either entry names the other. Both belong to category V04; each may be reported when its own documentation is present.

Registry fact

Is there an Excludes1 relationship?

None.Neither entry carries an Excludes1 note that names the other code. V04.138A carries 4 Excludes1 notes and V04.138S carries 4 Excludes1 notes covering other codes; the side-by-side table quotes them.

Official rule

Is there an Excludes2 relationship?

None.Neither entry carries an Excludes2 note that names the other code.

Official rule

Is one more specific?

No.Neither is a subdivision of the other, and neither title is the unspecified form; they describe different conditions within category V04.

Registry fact

Is one a parent or header code?

No.Both are billable codes, and neither contains the other.

Registry fact

Are there sequencing instructions?

None.Neither entry carries a Code First or Use Additional Code note that names the other.

Official rule

Are there other coding relationships?

None found.No laterality, encounter-phase, Table of Neoplasms, Table of Drugs and Chemicals, or history-versus-active-disease relationship links these codes.

MedCoder-derived

Official rule: a tabular instructional note or a section of the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, quoted as published. Registry fact: the codes’ own published attributes (titles, billable status, position in the hierarchy, code set). MedCoder-derived: a reading MedCoder computes from those facts; it is not itself a rule. How to read the labels

Can these codes be reported together?

Yes, when each is documented. V04.138A and V04.138S both belong to category V04.

No Excludes1/Excludes2 relationship exists between these codes in the official tabular list. The code titles state what each one covers, and the documentation decides which applies.

Side by side

Similar descriptions do not make codes interchangeable. The documentation and the official instructions decide which code applies.

Official descriptionDiffers
V04.138A

Pedestrian on other standing micro-mobility pedestrian conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, initial encounter

V04.138S

Pedestrian on other standing micro-mobility pedestrian conveyance injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident, sequela

StatusSame for both
Billable
Excludes1Same for both
  • pedestrian injured in collision with military vehicle (V09.01, V09.21)
  • fall due to non-transport collision with other person (W03)
  • pedestrian on foot falling (slipping) on ice and snow (W00.-)
  • struck or bumped by another person (W51)
CategorySame for both

V04 Pedestrian injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus

ChapterSame for both

V00-Y99 — External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99)

IncludesSame for both
  • person changing tire on transport vehicle
  • person examining engine of vehicle broken down in (on side of) road
  • Pedestrian on hoverboard injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident
  • Pedestrian on segway injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus in traffic accident
7th characterSame for both
  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V04

No Excludes2, Code first, Use additional code and Code also note at either code.

Notes are the code’s own tabular entry, quoted as published. A note that names the other code is the one the verdict above rests on. In a row that differs, each code’s own notes are listed under it, and the notes every code shares are listed once beneath them.

Derived from the official CMS ICD-10-CM tabular data (FY2027). A coding-rule comparison, not billing advice: payer-specific edits and medical-necessity policy are outside its scope. All data sources