V79.9
V79.9: Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified traffic accident
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
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
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Accident›transport›bus occupant
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead V79.9
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under V79
- 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