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V96.00XS

Unspecified balloon accident injuring occupant, sequela

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified balloon accident injuring occupant, sequela

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 V96 Accident to nonpowered aircraft causing injury to occupant

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V96

Inherited from the V95-V97 section Air and space transport accidents (V95-V97)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • military aircraft 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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
V96.00XA Unspecified balloon accident injuring occupant, initial encounter Valid
V96.00XD Unspecified balloon accident injuring occupant, subsequent encounter Valid