Category · FY2027
V48 Car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident
- Header · not billable
- Codes take a 7th character
V48 is not billable. The category heads 27 billable codes in FY2027, grouped under 9 subdivisions. Its codes take a 7th character, so none is complete with fewer than 7 characters.
Where it sits
- Chapter 20 External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99)
- V40-V49 Car occupant injured in transport accident (V40-V49)
- V48 Car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident
- Billable codes
- 27
- Subdivisions
- 9
- CC / MCC codes
- 0 / 0
- HCC V28 codes
- 0
- New FY2027
- 0
- Index entries
- 0
Codes in V48
- V48.0Car driver injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident +7th: A D SNeeds 7th characterExempt
- V48.1Car passenger injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident +7th: A D SNeeds 7th characterExempt
- V48.2Person on outside of car injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident +7th: A D SNeeds 7th characterExempt
- V48.3Unspecified car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident +7th: A D SNeeds 7th characterExempt
- V48.4Person boarding or alighting a car injured in noncollision transport accident +7th: A D SNeeds 7th characterExempt
- V48.5Car driver injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident +7th: A D SNeeds 7th characterExempt
- V48.6Car passenger injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident +7th: A D SNeeds 7th characterExempt
- V48.7Person on outside of car injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident +7th: A D SNeeds 7th characterExempt
- V48.9Unspecified car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident +7th: A D SNeeds 7th characterExempt
Sources of each column. Rows marked +7th need a 7th character: pick one to build the full code; its code card has its own flags.
Instructions
At V48
Includes
- overturning car NOS
- overturning car without collision
Notes that also apply
Block V40-V49 instructions (Includes 2, Excludes1 6): printed on the block page.
Instructions for the group V00-V99 (Notes 28, Excludes1 5, Excludes2 1, Use additional code 4): printed on the chapter 20 page.
Chapter 20 instructions (Notes 1): printed on the chapter 20 page.
7th characters
7th characters for V48 defined here
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V48
| 7th | Meaning (NCHS) |
|---|---|
| A | initial encounter |
| D | subsequent encounter |
| S | sequela |
A code that takes a 7th character is invalid without it; the placeholder X fills a code shorter than 6 characters (Official Guidelines I.A.5). How 7th characters work.