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V49.40XD ICD-10-CM Code: Driver injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, subsequent encounter

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

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Driver injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, subsequent encounter is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (V49.40D).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for V49.40XD 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)

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 V49.40XD 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.

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.

Related Codes

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (External cause codes: subsequent encounter).

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Contextual Map

Every relationship of V49.40XD 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]
  • V49.19 — 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]
  • V49.19XD — Passenger injured in collision with other motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter [Sibling]
  • V49.19XS — Passenger injured in collision with other motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, sequela [Sibling]
  • V49.2 — Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident [Sibling]
  • V49.20 — Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident [Sibling]
  • V49.20XA — Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, initial encounter [Sibling]
  • and 32 more

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) & Clinical Guidance

Does V49.40XD 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 V49.40XD in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • V49.3XXD — Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, subsequent 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
  • V49.40XS — Driver injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, sequela
  • V49.49 — Driver injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident
  • V49.49XA — Driver injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident, initial encounter
  • V49.49XD — Driver injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
  • V49.49XS — Driver injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident, sequela

View all codes in the V49 family