ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W00-W19 › W08 Fall from other furniture › W08.XXXD

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

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

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 W08 Fall from other furniture

Seventh character required

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to code W08

Seventh character values

• Fall from stool

Inherited from the W00-W19 section Slipping, tripping, stumbling and falls (W00-W19)

Excludes1 - never coded here

• assault involving a fall (Y01-Y02)
• fall from animal (V80.-)
• fall (in) (from) machinery (in operation) (W28-W31)
• fall (in) (from) transport vehicle (V01-V99)
• intentional self-harm involving a fall (X80-X81)

Excludes2 - not included here

• at risk for fall (history of fall) Z91.81
• fall (in) (from) burning building (X00.-)
• fall into fire (X00-X04, X08)

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.

• Broken > glass, contact with
• Fall, falling > involving > table
• Fall, falling > out of > furniture NEC
• Fall, falling > from, off, out of > stool
• Fall, falling > from, off, out of > table
• Fall, falling > involving > furniture NEC
• Fall, falling > from, off, out of > furniture NEC

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
W08.XXXA	Fall from other furniture, initial encounter	Valid
W08.XXXS	Fall from other furniture, sequela	Valid