ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W20-W49 › W21.04 Struck by golf ball › W21.04XA

W21.04XA

Struck by golf ball, initial encounter

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 Struck by golf ball, initial encounter

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 W21 Striking against or struck by sports equipment

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W21

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • assault with sports equipment (Y08.0-)
  • striking against or struck by sports equipment with subsequent fall (W18.01)

Inherited from the W20-W49 section Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces (W20-W49)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • assault (X92-Y09)
  • contact or collision with animals or persons (W50-W64)
  • exposure to inanimate mechanical forces involving military or war operations (Y36.-, Y37.-)
  • intentional self-harm (X71-X83)

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
W21.04XD Struck by golf ball, subsequent encounter Valid
W21.04XS Struck by golf ball, sequela Valid