ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W85-W99 › W93 Exposure to excessive cold of... › W93.2
Prolonged exposure in deep freeze unit or refrigerator
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- W93.2XXA Prolonged exposure in deep freeze unit or refrigerator, initial encounter
- W93.2XXD Prolonged exposure in deep freeze unit or refrigerator, subsequent encounter
- W93.2XXS Prolonged exposure in deep freeze unit or refrigerator, sequela
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Prolonged exposure in deep freeze unit or refrigerator
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 W93 Exposure to excessive cold of man-made origin
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W93
Inherited from the W85-W99 section Exposure to electric current, radiation and extreme ambient air temperature and pressure (W85-W99)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- exposure to:
- failure in dosage of radiation or temperature during surgical and medical care (Y63.2-Y63.5)
- lightning (T75.0-)
- natural cold (X31)
- natural heat (X30)
- natural radiation NOS (X39)
- radiological procedure and radiotherapy (Y84.2)
- sunlight (X32)
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.
- Frozen
- Freezing
- Exhaustion > cold
- Low > temperature
- Overexposure > cold
- Cold, exposure to NEC
- Contact > with > dry ice
- Effect of > cold, excessive
- Exposure > excessive > cold
- Contact > with > liquefied gas
- Accident > caused by, due to > cold
- Frostbite > due to man-made conditions
- Contact > with > liquid air, hydrogen, nitrogen
- Overexposure > cold > due to man-made conditions
- Inhalation > excessively cold substance, man-made
- Exposure > prolonged in deep-freeze unit or refrigerator
- Exposure > cold > due to > man-made conditions > refrigeration unit
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| W93.0 | Contact with or inhalation of dry ice | Not billable |
| W93.1 | Contact with or inhalation of liquid air | Not billable |
| W93.8 | Exposure to other excessive cold of man-made origin | Not billable |