ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › V90-V94 › V94 Other and unspecified water... › V94.9
Unspecified water transport accident
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- V94.9XXA Unspecified water transport accident, initial encounter
- V94.9XXD Unspecified water transport accident, subsequent encounter
- V94.9XXS Unspecified water transport accident, sequela
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified water transport accident
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)
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.
- Accident > boat, boating
- Accident > transport > occupant > boat NEC
- Accident > transport > watercraft occupant
- Jumped, jumping > into water > from, off watercraft
- Jumped, jumping > from > boat > with > accident to or on boat
- Accident > watercraft
- Accident > transport > occupant > ship NOS
- Accident > transport > occupant > watercraft NOS
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| V94.0 | Hitting object or bottom of body of water due to fall from watercraft | Not billable |
| V94.1 | Bather struck by watercraft | Not billable |
| V94.2 | Rider of nonpowered watercraft struck by other watercraft | Not billable |
| V94.3 | Injury to rider of (inflatable) watercraft being pulled behind other watercraft | Not billable |
| V94.4 | Injury to barefoot water-skier | Not billable |
| V94.8 | Other water transport accident | Not billable |