ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X92-Y09 › X92 Assault by drowning and submersion › X92.3
Assault by drowning and submersion in natural water
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:
- X92.3XXA Assault by drowning and submersion in natural water, initial encounter
- X92.3XXD Assault by drowning and submersion in natural water, subsequent encounter
- X92.3XXS Assault by drowning and submersion in natural water, 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 Assault by drowning and submersion in natural water
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 X92 Assault by drowning and submersion
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X92
Inherited from the X92-Y09 section Assault (X92-Y09)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- injuries due to legal intervention (Y35.-)
- injuries due to operations of war (Y36.-)
- injuries due to terrorism (Y38.-)
Includes
- homicide
- injuries inflicted by another person with intent to injure or kill, by any means
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.
- Fight
- Diving
- Murder
- Homicide
- Lynching
- Immersion
- Wound NEC
- Submersion
- Infanticide
- Manslaughter
- Assassination
- Laceration NEC
- Hitting against
- Drowning > in > sea
- Killed, killing NOS
- Assault > submersion
- Drowning > in > lake
- Drowning > in > river
- Drowning > in > stream
- Assault > fight > with weapon
- Injury, injured NOS > homicide
- Injury, injured NOS > purposely
- Injury, injured NOS > due to, in > fight
- Accident > diving > with > drowning or submersion
- Injury, injured NOS > by, caused by, from > assault
- Killed, killing NOS > in > brawl, fight > by weapon
- Striking against > wall > falling into water > fountain
- Striking against > wall > falling into water > reservoir
- Striking against > object > with > drowning or submersion
- Accident > transport > occupant > watercraft NOS > causing drowning
- Injury, injured NOS > inflicted > other person > stated as > intentional, homicide
- Assault > drowning > natural water
- Drowning > in > natural water > assault
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| X92.0 | Assault by drowning and submersion while in bathtub | Not billable |
| X92.1 | Assault by drowning and submersion while in swimming pool | Not billable |
| X92.2 | Assault by drowning and submersion after push into swimming pool | Not billable |
| X92.8 | Other assault by drowning and submersion | Not billable |
| X92.9 | Assault by drowning and submersion, unspecified | Not billable |