V38.2Person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident

V38.2 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident. It belongs to category V38 (occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident), block V30-V39 (occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in transport accident) and chapter 20 (external causes of morbidity). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within V38 (occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident), V38.2 is specifically for person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident. Related codes cover driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (V38.0), passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (V38.1), unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (V38.3), person boarding or alighting a three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident (V38.4), driver of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (V38.5), passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (V38.6), person on outside of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (V38.7) and unspecified occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (V38.9).

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.