October 1 update. Our PDGM and ICD-10 tools now use the FY2027 code set: 190 codes added, 30 deleted, and no existing code changed clinical group.

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ICD-10 · PDGM grouping

V98-V99 — Other and unspecified transport accidents

Every ICD-10-CM code in this range and the PDGM clinical group CMS assigns to it, read from the CMS grouper crosswalk v07.2.26.

ICD-10-CM FY2027 · CMS grouper v07.2.26

Codes in range

18

No clinical group

18

A period cannot be grouped from these.

Barred as primary

0

CMS rejects these in the primary position.

Where these codes group

None of the 18 codes in V98-V99 is assigned a PDGM clinical group. A 30-day period cannot be grouped from any of them, so none can hold the primary position on a home health claim.

Code families in V98-V99

One page per three-character family: every code in it, whether it can lead a claim, its clinical group and comorbidity subgroup.

Every code in V98-V99

Descriptions are CMS’s own, abbreviated as CMS abbreviates them.

CodeDescriptionClinical groupPrimary position
V980XXAAccident to, on or involving cable-car, not on rails, initNoneCannot lead a claim
V980XXDAccident to, on or involving cable-car, not on rails, subsNoneCannot lead a claim
V980XXSAccident to, on or w cable-car, not on rails, sequelaNoneCannot lead a claim
V981XXAAccident to, on or involving land-yacht, initial encounterNoneCannot lead a claim
V981XXDAccident to, on or involving land-yacht, subs encntrNoneCannot lead a claim
V981XXSAccident to, on or involving land-yacht, sequelaNoneCannot lead a claim
V982XXAAccident to, on or involving ice yacht, initial encounterNoneCannot lead a claim
V982XXDAccident to, on or involving ice yacht, subsequent encounterNoneCannot lead a claim
V982XXSAccident to, on or involving ice yacht, sequelaNoneCannot lead a claim
V983XXAAccident to, on or involving ski lift, initial encounterNoneCannot lead a claim
V983XXDAccident to, on or involving ski lift, subsequent encounterNoneCannot lead a claim
V983XXSAccident to, on or involving ski lift, sequelaNoneCannot lead a claim
V988XXAOther specified transport accidents, initial encounterNoneCannot lead a claim
V988XXDOther specified transport accidents, subsequent encounterNoneCannot lead a claim
V988XXSOther specified transport accidents, sequelaNoneCannot lead a claim
V99XXXAUnspecified transport accident, initial encounterNoneCannot lead a claim
V99XXXDUnspecified transport accident, subsequent encounterNoneCannot lead a claim
V99XXXSUnspecified transport accident, sequelaNoneCannot lead a claim

Source: CMS HH PPS Grouper Software v07.2.26, effective 2026-10-01. This is the crosswalk Medicare runs a claim through. Grouping also depends on admission source, timing, the OASIS functional items and the rest of the diagnosis list.

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