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V90

Drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 5 more specific codes instead:

  • V90.0 Drowning and submersion due to watercraft overturning (also a header)
  • V90.1 Drowning and submersion due to watercraft sinking (also a header)
  • V90.2 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning watercraft (also a header)
  • V90.3 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed watercraft (also a header)
  • V90.8 Drowning and submersion due to other accident to watercraft (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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft

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.

This code

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V90

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • civilian water transport accident involving military watercraft (V94.81-)
  • fall into water not from watercraft (W16.-)
  • military watercraft accident in military or war operations (Y36.0-, Y37.0-)
  • water-transport-related drowning or submersion without accident to watercraft (V92.-)