ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X71-X83 › X78 Intentional self-harm by sharp object › X78.9
Intentional self-harm by unspecified sharp object
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:
- X78.9XXA Intentional self-harm by unspecified sharp object, initial encounter
- X78.9XXD Intentional self-harm by unspecified sharp object, subsequent encounter
- X78.9XXS Intentional self-harm by unspecified sharp object, 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 Intentional self-harm by unspecified sharp object
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 X78 Intentional self-harm by sharp object
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X78
Inherited from the X71-X83 section Intentional self-harm (X71-X83)
Also known as
- Purposely self-inflicted injury
- Suicide (attempted)
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.
- Immersion
- Felo-de-se
- Submersion
- Slashed wrists
- Stab, stabbing
- Sinking > watercraft
- Cut, cutting > suicide
- Overturning > watercraft
- Suicide, suicidal > stab
- Trapped > between objects
- Self-harm NEC > intentional
- Suicide, suicidal > puncture
- Cut, cutting > self-inflicted
- Self-inflicted NEC > intentional
- Suicide, suicidal > sharp object
- Contact > with > marine > animal > mammal
- Accident > watercraft > causing > drowning
- Contact > with > animal NEC > marine > mammal
- Drowning > resulting from accident to watercraft
- Killed, killing NOS > self > stated as > suicide
- Accident > diving > with > drowning or submersion
- Crash > transport vehicle NEC > motor NEC > suicide
- Drowning > due to > jumping into water from watercraft
- Striking against > object > with > drowning or submersion
- Accident > transport > occupant > watercraft NOS > causing drowning
- Collision NEC > transport vehicle NEC > intentional, purposeful suicide
- Drowning > due to > fall overboard > resulting from > accident to watercraft
- Suicide, suicidal > cut
- Suicide, suicidal > cutting or piercing instrument
- Contact > with > object NEC > sharp NEC > self-inflicted
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| X78.0 | Intentional self-harm by sharp glass | Not billable |
| X78.1 | Intentional self-harm by knife | Not billable |
| X78.2 | Intentional self-harm by sword or dagger | Not billable |
| X78.8 | Intentional self-harm by other sharp object | Not billable |