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W74.XXXD

Unspecified cause of accidental drowning and submersion, 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 Unspecified cause of accidental drowning and submersion, 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 W74 Unspecified cause of accidental drowning and submersion

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to code W74

Also known as

  • Drowning NOS

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
W74.XXXA Unspecified cause of accidental drowning and submersion, initial encounter Valid
W74.XXXS Unspecified cause of accidental drowning and submersion, sequela Valid