V79.3

V79.3: Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V79.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.

This code requires a 7th character

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V79

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Bus accident NOS, nontraffic
Bus occupant injured in nontraffic accident NOS

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Accident›transport›bus occupant›nontraffic

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead V79.3

3 child codes. Green means billable.