ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W65-W74 › W69 Accidental drowning and submersion... › W69.XXXS
Accidental drowning and submersion while in natural water, sequela
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Accidental drowning and submersion while in natural water, sequela
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 W69 Accidental drowning and submersion while in natural water
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to code W69
Excludes1 - never coded here
- accidental drowning and submersion due to fall into natural body of water (W16.111, W16.121, W16.131)
Also known as
- Accidental drowning and submersion while in lake
- Accidental drowning and submersion while in open sea
- Accidental drowning and submersion while in river
- Accidental drowning and submersion while in stream
Inherited from the W65-W74 section Accidental non-transport drowning and submersion (W65-W74)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- accidental drowning and submersion due to fall into water (W16.-)
- accidental drowning and submersion due to water transport accident (V90.-, V92.-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- accidental drowning and submersion due to cataclysm (X34-X39)
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.
- Diving
- Immersion
- Submersion
- Hitting against
- Drowning > in > sea
- Drowning > in > lake
- Drowning > in > river
- Drowning > in > stream
- Accident > diving > with > drowning or submersion
- Striking against > wall > falling into water > fountain
- Striking against > wall > falling into water > reservoir
- Striking against > object > with > drowning or submersion
- Accident > transport > occupant > watercraft NOS > causing drowning
- Drowning > in > natural water
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| W69.XXXA | Accidental drowning and submersion while in natural water, initial encounter | Valid |
| W69.XXXD | Accidental drowning and submersion while in natural water, subsequent encounter | Valid |