ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V90-V94 › V91 Other injury due to accident to watercraft › V91.8

V91.8

Other injury due to other 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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • V91.80 Other injury due to other accident to merchant ship (also a header)
  • V91.81 Other injury due to other accident to passenger ship (also a header)
  • V91.82 Other injury due to other accident to fishing boat (also a header)
  • V91.83 Other injury due to other accident to other powered watercraft (also a header)
  • V91.84 Other injury due to other accident to sailboat (also a header)
  • V91.85 Other injury due to other accident to canoe or kayak (also a header)
  • V91.86 Other injury due to other accident to (nonpowered) inflatable craft (also a header)
  • V91.87 Other injury due to other accident to water-skis (also a header)
  • V91.88 Other injury due to other accident to other unpowered watercraft (also a header)
  • V91.89 Other injury due to other accident to 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 Other injury due to other 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.

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

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
V91.0 Burn due to watercraft on fire Not billable
V91.1 Crushed between watercraft and other watercraft or other object due to collision Not billable
V91.2 Fall due to collision between watercraft and other watercraft or other object Not billable
V91.3 Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to watercraft Not billable