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V79.81XA ICD-10-CM Code: Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in transport accidents with military vehicle, initial encounter

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in transport accidents with military vehicle, initial encounter is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (V79.81A).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for V79.81XA in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Includes

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

  • motorcoach

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).

Frequently Compared Codes

The official Excludes notes on V79.81XA 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):EXT007 — External cause codes: motor vehicle traffic (MVT); initial encounter; EXT020 — External cause codes: intent of injury, accidental/unintentional.

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Contextual Map

Every relationship of V79.81XA 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)

  • EXT007 — External cause codes: motor vehicle traffic (MVT); initial encounter [CCSR]
  • EXT020 — External cause codes: intent of injury, accidental/unintentional [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 V79.81XA 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 V79.81XA in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • 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
  • V79.81 — Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in transport accidents with military vehicle
  • V79.81XD — Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in transport accidents with military vehicle, subsequent encounter
  • V79.81XS — Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in transport accidents with military vehicle, sequela
  • V79.88 — Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents
  • V79.88XA — Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents, initial encounter
  • V79.88XD — Bus occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents, subsequent encounter

View all codes in the V79 family