ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W20-W49 › W34.011 Accidental discharge of paintball gun › W34.011A

W34.011A

Accidental discharge of paintball gun, 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 2010 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. FY2010 Added to the draft code set draft Accidental discharge of paintball gun, 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 W34 Accidental discharge and malfunction from other and unspecified firearms and guns

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W34

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
W34.011D Accidental discharge of paintball gun, subsequent encounter Valid
W34.011S Accidental discharge of paintball gun, sequela Valid