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V79.20XS

Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, sequela

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, sequela

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from V79 Bus occupant injured in other and unspecified transport accidents

Seventh character required

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

Inherited from the V70-V79 section Bus occupant injured in transport accident (V70-V79)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • minibus (V50-V59)

Includes

  • motorcoach

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
V79.20XA Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, initial encounter Valid
V79.20XD Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident, subsequent encounter Valid