ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X30-X39 › X37.2 Blizzard (snow)(ice) › X37.2XXS
Blizzard (snow)(ice), 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 Blizzard (snow)(ice), 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 X37 Cataclysmic storm
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X37
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.
- Storm
- Immersion
- Submersion
- Victim > storm NEC
- Sinking > watercraft
- Accident > boat, boating
- Overturning > watercraft
- Washed > off road by storm
- Drowning > due to > cataclysmic > storm
- Accident > transport > occupant > boat NEC
- Accident > transport > watercraft occupant
- Accident > watercraft > causing > drowning
- Drowning > resulting from accident to watercraft
- Accident > diving > with > drowning or submersion
- Drowning > due to > jumping into water from watercraft
- Striking against > object > with > drowning or submersion
- Jumped, jumping > from > boat > with > accident to or on boat
- Struck by > object > falling > from, in, on > cataclysmic > storm
- Accident > transport > occupant > watercraft NOS > causing drowning
- Drowning > due to > fall overboard > resulting from > accident to watercraft
- Blizzard
- Forces of nature > blizzard
- Forces of nature > cataclysmic storm > blizzard
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| X37.2XXA | Blizzard (snow)(ice), initial encounter | Valid |
| X37.2XXD | Blizzard (snow)(ice), subsequent encounter | Valid |