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V97.39XS

Other injury to person on ground due to air transport accident, 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 Other injury to person on ground due to air transport accident, 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 V97 Other specified air transport accidents

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V97

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
V97.39XA Other injury to person on ground due to air transport accident, initial encounter Valid
V97.39XD Other injury to person on ground due to air transport accident, subsequent encounter Valid