ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V70-V79 › V79 Bus occupant injured in other and... › V79.6
Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:
- V79.60 Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident (also a header)
- V79.69 Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident (also a header)
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
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
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| V79.0 | Driver of bus injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident | Not billable |
| V79.1 | Passenger on bus injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident | Not billable |
| V79.2 | Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident | Not billable |
| V79.3 | Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident | Not billable |
| V79.4 | Driver of bus injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident | Not billable |
| V79.5 | Passenger on bus injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident | Not billable |
| V79.8 | Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents | Not billable |
| V79.9 | Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified traffic accident | Not billable |