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V90.3

Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed 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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • V90.30 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed merchant ship (also a header)
  • V90.31 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed passenger ship (also a header)
  • V90.32 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed fishing boat (also a header)
  • V90.33 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other crushed powered watercraft (also a header)
  • V90.34 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed sailboat (also a header)
  • V90.35 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed canoe or kayak (also a header)
  • V90.36 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed (nonpowered) inflatable craft (also a header)
  • V90.37 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed water-skis (also a header)
  • V90.38 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other crushed unpowered watercraft (also a header)
  • V90.39 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed unspecified 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 falling or jumping from crushed 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.

Inherited from V90 Drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft

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.-)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
V90.0 Drowning and submersion due to watercraft overturning Not billable
V90.1 Drowning and submersion due to watercraft sinking Not billable
V90.2 Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning watercraft Not billable
V90.8 Drowning and submersion due to other accident to watercraft Not billable