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V49.3XXD ICD-10-CM Code: Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (V49.3D).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for V49.3XXD in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Includes

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

  • a four-wheeled motor vehicle designed primarily for carrying passengers
  • automobile (pulling a trailer or camper)

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Car accident NOS, nontraffic
  • Car occupant injured in nontraffic accident NOS

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Frequently Compared Codes

The official Excludes notes on V49.3XXD name these codes. Each comparison page covers when the two can — or must not — be reported together.

Change history

No changes recorded for this code — unchanged since the FY2016 baseline of the change ledger.

Verify Before Coding

  • Principal-diagnosis restriction. External cause of morbidity codes (V, W, X and Y) describe the circumstance that caused an injury, not the condition treated. The Medicare Code Editor rejects them as a principal diagnosis; sequence the injury or condition first and report this code as secondary.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim.

Contextual Map

Every relationship of V49.3XXD in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Hierarchy

  • V00-Y99 — Chapter 20: External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99) (V00-Y99) [Hierarchy]
  • V40-V49 — Car occupant injured in transport accident [Hierarchy]

Clinical classification (CCSR)

  • EXT029 — External cause codes: subsequent encounter [CCSR]

Nearest codes (40)

  • V49 — Car occupant injured in other and unspecified transport accidents [Sibling]
  • V49.1 — Passenger injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident [Sibling]
  • V49.10 — Passenger injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident [Sibling]
  • V49.10XA — Passenger injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, initial encounter [Sibling]
  • V49.10XD — Passenger injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter [Sibling]
  • V49.10XS — Passenger injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, sequela [Sibling]
  • V49.19 — Passenger injured in collision with other motor vehicles in nontraffic accident [Sibling]
  • V49.19XA — Passenger injured in collision with other motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, initial encounter [Sibling]
  • and 32 more

Relationships & Classification

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):EXT029 — External cause codes: subsequent encounter.

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) & Clinical Guidance

Does V49.3XXD require a 7th character?

Yes. The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V49.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to V49.3XXD in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • V49.29XA — Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, initial encounter
  • V49.29XD — Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter
  • V49.29XS — Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, sequela
  • V49.3 — Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident
  • V49.3XXA — Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, initial encounter
  • V49.3XXS — Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, sequela
  • V49.4 — Driver injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
  • V49.40 — Driver injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
  • V49.40XA — Driver injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, initial encounter
  • V49.40XD — Driver injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, subsequent encounter

View all codes in the V49 family