ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V90-V94 › V91.09 Burn due to unspecified watercraft on fire › V91.09XA
Burn due to unspecified watercraft on fire, initial encounter
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Burn due to unspecified watercraft on fire, initial encounter
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 V91 Other injury due to accident to watercraft
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V91
Excludes1 - never coded here
- civilian water transport accident involving military watercraft (V94.81-)
- military watercraft accident in military or war operations (Y36, Y37.-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft (V90.-)
Includes
- any injury except drowning and submersion as a result of an accident to watercraft
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Combustion, spontaneous
- Accident > boat, boating
- Burn, burned, burning > ignition
- Contact > with > hot > liquid NEC
- Suffocation > due to, by > ignition
- Accident > caused by, due to > ignition
- Asphyxia, asphyxiation > from > ignition
- Accident > transport > occupant > boat NEC
- Accident > transport > watercraft occupant
- Poisoning > fumes or smoke due to > ignition
- Jumped, jumping > into water > from, off watercraft
- Accident > machine, machinery > on board watercraft > fire
- Jumped, jumping > from > boat > with > accident to or on boat
- Sinking > watercraft > causing injury except drowning or submersion
- Overturning > watercraft > causing injury except drowning or submersion
- Exposure > fire, flames > in, of, on, starting in > watercraft
- Accident > watercraft > causing > injury NEC > fire on board causing burn
- Burn, burned, burning > on board watercraft > due to > accident to watercraft
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| V91.09XD | Burn due to unspecified watercraft on fire, subsequent encounter | Valid |
| V91.09XS | Burn due to unspecified watercraft on fire, sequela | Valid |