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V94

Other and unspecified water transport accidents

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 7 more specific codes instead:

  • V94.0 Hitting object or bottom of body of water due to fall from watercraft (also a header)
  • V94.1 Bather struck by watercraft (also a header)
  • V94.2 Rider of nonpowered watercraft struck by other watercraft (also a header)
  • V94.3 Injury to rider of (inflatable) watercraft being pulled behind other watercraft (also a header)
  • V94.4 Injury to barefoot water-skier (also a header)
  • V94.8 Other water transport accident (also a header)
  • V94.9 Unspecified water transport accident (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 and unspecified water transport accidents

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 V94

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • military watercraft accidents in military or war operations (Y36, Y37)