ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X92-Y09 › X98.2 Assault by hot fluids › X98.2XXS
Assault by hot fluids, 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 Assault by hot fluids, 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 X98 Assault by steam, hot vapors and hot objects
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X98
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
- Murder
- Homicide
- Lynching
- Immersion
- Wound NEC
- Submersion
- Infanticide
- Manslaughter
- Assassination
- Laceration NEC
- Stab, stabbing
- Assault > scalding
- Killed, killing NOS
- Sinking > watercraft
- Overturning > watercraft
- Trapped > between objects
- Scald, scalding > homicide
- Assault > fight > with weapon
- Injury, injured NOS > homicide
- Injury, injured NOS > purposely
- Burn, burned, burning > homicide
- Contact > with > hot > liquid NEC
- Assault > burning, burns NEC > scalding
- Injury, injured NOS > due to, in > fight
- Contact > with > marine > animal > mammal
- Accident > watercraft > causing > drowning
- Contact > with > animal NEC > marine > mammal
- Drowning > resulting from accident to watercraft
- Accident > diving > with > drowning or submersion
- Injury, injured NOS > by, caused by, from > assault
- Killed, killing NOS > in > brawl, fight > by weapon
- Drowning > due to > jumping into water from watercraft
- Striking against > object > with > drowning or submersion
- Accident > transport > occupant > watercraft NOS > causing drowning
- Drowning > due to > fall overboard > resulting from > accident to watercraft
- Scald, scalding > inflicted by other person > stated as intentional, homicide
- Injury, injured NOS > inflicted > other person > stated as > intentional, homicide
- Burn, burned, burning > inflicted by other person > by hot objects, hot vapor, and steam
- Contact > with > hot > fluids NEC > assault
Showing 40 of 41 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| X98.2XXA | Assault by hot fluids, initial encounter | Valid |
| X98.2XXD | Assault by hot fluids, subsequent encounter | Valid |