ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X30-X39 › X36 Avalanche, landslide and other... › X36.0

X36.0

Collapse of dam or man-made structure causing earth movement

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • X36.0XXA Collapse of dam or man-made structure causing earth movement, initial encounter
  • X36.0XXD Collapse of dam or man-made structure causing earth movement, subsequent encounter
  • X36.0XXS Collapse of dam or man-made structure causing earth movement, 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.

  1. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Collapse of dam or man-made structure causing earth movement

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 X36 Avalanche, landslide and other earth movements

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X36

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • earthquake (X34)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • transport accident involving collision with avalanche or landslide not in motion (V01-V99)

Includes

  • victim of mudslide of cataclysmic nature

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.

Showing 40 of 46 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
X36.1 Avalanche, landslide, or mudslide Not billable