ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W00-W19 › W17.8 Other fall from one level to another › W17.81

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:

• W17.81XA Fall down embankment (hill), initial encounter
• W17.81XD Fall down embankment (hill), subsequent encounter
• W17.81XS Fall down embankment (hill), sequela

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

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 W17 Other fall from one level to another

Seventh character required

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W17

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 > down > hill
• Fall, falling > down > embankment
• Fall, falling > over > embankment
• Fall, falling > from, off, out of > embankment

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
W17.82	Fall from (out of) grocery cart	Not billable
W17.89	Other fall from one level to another	Not billable