V20 (Motorcycle rider injured in collision with pedestrian or animal)
compared with
V33.3XXD (Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van in nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter),
from the official CMS tabular data. Do not report these codes together: the official tabular list marks them Excludes1.
Motorcycle rider injured in collision with pedestrian or animal
Not coded here — these two are mutually exclusive.
“motorcycle with sidecar (V20-V29)”
An Excludes1 note means the two conditions cannot occur together, so the pair should not be reported for the same encounter. The sole exception is when the conditions are documented as unrelated to each other.
Motorcycle rider injured in collision with pedestrian or animal is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code (V20).
Unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with car, pick-up truck or van in nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (V33.3D).
7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V20
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V33