ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V90-V94 › V94.8 Other water transport accident › V94.81

V94.81

Water transport accident involving military 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 3 more specific codes instead:

  • V94.810 Civilian watercraft involved in water transport accident with military watercraft (also a header)
  • V94.811 Civilian in water injured by military watercraft (also a header)
  • V94.818 Other water transport accident involving military 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 Water transport accident involving military 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 V94 Other and unspecified water transport accidents

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)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
V94.89 Other water transport accident Not billable