2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code V89.9XXD

Person injured in unspecified vehicle accident, subsequent encounter

ICD-10-CM Code:
V89.9XXD
ICD-10 Code for:
Person injured in unspecified vehicle accident, subs encntr
Is Billable?
Yes - Valid for Submission
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Code Classification

  • External causes of morbidity and mortality
    (V01–Y99)
    • Transport accidents
      (V00-V99)
      • Motor- or nonmotor-vehicle accident, type of vehicle unspecified
        (V89)

V89.9XXD is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of person injured in unspecified vehicle accident, subsequent encounter. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024. The code is exempt from present on admission (POA) reporting for inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals.

V89.9XXD is a subsequent encounter code, includes a 7th character and should be used after the patient has completed active treatment for a condition like person injured in unspecified vehicle accident. According to ICD-10-CM Guidelines a "subsequent encounter" occurs when the patient is receiving routine care for the condition during the healing or recovery phase of treatment. Subsequent diagnosis codes are appropriate during the recovery phase, no matter how many times the patient has seen the provider for this condition. If the provider needs to adjust the patient's care plan due to a setback or other complication, the encounter becomes active again.

Unspecified diagnosis codes like V89.9XXD are acceptable when clinical information is unknown or not available about a particular condition. Although a more specific code is preferable, unspecified codes should be used when such codes most accurately reflect what is known about a patient's condition. Specific diagnosis codes should not be used if not supported by the patient's medical record.

Approximate Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

  • Accidental death
  • Driver in vehicular AND/OR traffic accident
  • Fall from moving motor vehicle on road
  • Front seat passenger in vehicular AND/OR traffic accident
  • Injury due to motor vehicle accident
  • Injury of unknown intent associated with moving vehicles
  • Injury of unknown intent due to impact by moving motor vehicle
  • Injury of unknown intent due to impact with moving vehicle
  • Motor vehicle on road in collision between motor vehicle and bridge
  • Motor vehicle on road in collision with bollard
  • Motor vehicle on road in collision with building
  • Motor vehicle on road in collision with lamp post
  • Motor vehicle on road in collision with road sign
  • Passenger in vehicular AND/OR traffic accident
  • Rear seat passenger in vehicular AND/OR traffic accident
  • Traffic vehicular accidental death
  • Vehicle accident
  • Victim in more than two vehicle accident
  • Victim in two vehicle accident
  • Victim of vehicular AND/OR traffic accident

Clinical Classification

Present on Admission (POA)

V89.9XXD is exempt from POA reporting - The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement. Review other POA exempt codes here.

CMS POA Indicator Options and Definitions

POA IndicatorReason for CodeCMS will pay the CC/MCC DRG?
YDiagnosis was present at time of inpatient admission.YES
NDiagnosis was not present at time of inpatient admission.NO
UDocumentation insufficient to determine if the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission.NO
WClinically undetermined - unable to clinically determine whether the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission.YES
1Unreported/Not used - Exempt from POA reporting. NO

Convert V89.9XXD to ICD-9-CM

  • ICD-9-CM Code: E819.9 - Traffic acc NOS-pers NOS
    Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.

Code History

  • FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
  • FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
  • FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
  • FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
  • FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
  • FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
  • FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
  • FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
  • FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.