V79.60XS ICD-10-CM Code: Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, sequela
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Official Registry Overview & Definition
Official Tabular Instructional Notes
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for V79.60XS in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Includes
Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.
- motorcoach
Inclusion Terms
Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.
- Bus collision NOS (traffic)
Excludes1 — Not Coded Here
Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).
- minibus (V50-V59) Compare V79.60XS vs V50 →
Frequently Compared Codes
The official Excludes notes on V79.60XS name these codes. Each comparison page covers when the two can — or must not — be reported together.
Change history
No changes recorded for this code — unchanged since the FY2016 baseline of the change ledger.
Verify Before Coding
- Principal-diagnosis restriction. External cause of morbidity codes (V, W, X and Y) describe the circumstance that caused an injury, not the condition treated. The Medicare Code Editor rejects them as a principal diagnosis; sequence the injury or condition first and report this code as secondary.
From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim.
Relationships & Classification
Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):EXT030 — External cause codes: sequela.
Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Related Codes
Same clinical category (CCSR)
AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (External cause codes: sequela).
Contextual Map
Every relationship of V79.60XS in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.
Hierarchy
- V00-Y99 — Chapter 20: External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99) (V00-Y99) [Hierarchy]
- V70-V79 — Bus occupant injured in transport accident [Hierarchy]
Clinical classification (CCSR)
- EXT030 — External cause codes: sequela [CCSR]
Nearest codes (40)
- V79 — Bus occupant injured in other and unspecified transport accidents [Sibling]
- V79.3XXS — Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident, sequela [Sibling]
- V79.4 — Driver of bus injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident [Sibling]
- V79.40 — Driver of bus injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident [Sibling]
- V79.40XA — Driver of bus injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, initial encounter [Sibling]
- V79.40XD — Driver of bus injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, subsequent encounter [Sibling]
- V79.40XS — Driver of bus injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, sequela [Sibling]
- V79.49 — Driver of bus injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident [Sibling]
- and 32 more
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) & Clinical Guidance
Does V79.60XS require a 7th character?
Yes. The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V79.
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to V79.60XS in its code family, with their registry titles.
- V79.59XS — Passenger on bus injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident, sequela
- V79.6 — Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V79.60 — Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V79.60XA — Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, initial encounter
- V79.60XD — Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V79.69 — Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident
- V79.69XA — Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident, initial encounter
- V79.69XD — Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident, subsequent encounter
- V79.69XS — Unspecified bus occupant injured in collision with other motor vehicles in traffic accident, sequela
- V79.8 — Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents