ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X92-Y09 › X98.9 Assault by unspecified hot objects › X98.9XXA
Assault by unspecified hot objects, initial encounter
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 unspecified hot objects, 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 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
- Wound NEC
- Infanticide
- Manslaughter
- Assassination
- Laceration NEC
- Assault > scalding
- Killed, killing NOS
- 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
- Injury, injured NOS > by, caused by, from > assault
- Killed, killing NOS > in > brawl, fight > by weapon
- 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
- Assault > burning, burns NEC > hot object
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| X98.9XXD | Assault by unspecified hot objects, subsequent encounter | Valid |
| X98.9XXS | Assault by unspecified hot objects, sequela | Valid |