ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W50-W64 › W56.39 Other contact with other marine mammals › W56.39XD

W56.39XD

Other contact with other marine mammals, subsequent 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 Other contact with other marine mammals, subsequent 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 W56 Contact with nonvenomous marine animal

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W56

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • contact with venomous marine animal (T63.-)

Inherited from the W50-W64 section Exposure to animate mechanical forces (W50-W64)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • Toxic effect of contact with venomous animals and plants (T63.-)

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
W56.39XA Other contact with other marine mammals, initial encounter Valid
W56.39XS Other contact with other marine mammals, sequela Valid