V79.9 — Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified traffic accident
V79.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified traffic 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
Risk adjustment
V79.9 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 V79.9 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 V79.9.
- Accident›transport›bus occupant
Code to one of these instead V79.9
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V79. If V79.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V79.0Driver of bus injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V79.1Passenger on bus injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V79.2Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident
- V79.3Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident
- V79.4Driver of bus injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V79.5Passenger on bus injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V79.6Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V79.8Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents
Questions about V79.9
- Is V79.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V79.9 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V79.9 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Bus occupant injured in transport accident (V70-V79).