Is V79.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

No. V79.81 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.

Where does V79.81 sit in the tabular list?

External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Bus occupant injured in transport accident (V70-V79).

V79.81

V79.81 — Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in transport accidents with military vehicle

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V79.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in transport accidents with military vehicle. 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

Other codes that can never be billed with V79.81

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V79.81. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V79.81 alone.

V74Bus occupant injured in collision with heavy transport vehicle or bus
Y36Operations of war
Y37Military operations

Risk adjustment

V79.81 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.

How V79.81 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to V79.81.

Accident›transport›bus occupant›specified type NEC›military vehicle

Code to one of these instead V79.81

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share V79.8. If V79.81 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

V79.88Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents

Questions about V79.81

Is V79.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: No. V79.81 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
Where does V79.81 sit in the tabular list?: External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Bus occupant injured in transport accident (V70-V79).