ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X30-X39 › X38 Flood › X38.XXXA

X38.XXXA

Flood, initial 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 Flood, initial 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 X38 Flood

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to code X38

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • collapse of dam or man-made structure causing earth movement (X36.0)
  • tidal wave NOS (X37.41)
  • tidal wave caused by storm (X37.42)

Also known as

  • Flood arising from remote storm
  • Flood of cataclysmic nature arising from melting snow
  • Flood resulting directly from storm

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
X38.XXXD Flood, subsequent encounter Valid
X38.XXXS Flood, sequela Valid