ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y90-Y99 › Y92 Place of occurrence of the external cause › Y92.9

Y92.9

Unspecified place or not applicable

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 Unspecified place or not applicable

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 Y92 Place of occurrence of the external cause

Also known as

  • The following category is for use, when relevant, to identify the place of occurrence of the external cause. Use in conjunction with an activity code.
  • Place of occurrence should be recorded only at the initial encounter for treatment

Inherited from the Y90-Y99 section Supplementary factors related to causes of morbidity classified elsewhere (Y90-Y99)

Note

  • These categories may be used to provide supplementary information concerning causes of morbidity. They are not to be used for single-condition coding.

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
Y92.0 Non-institutional (private) residence as the place of occurrence of the external cause Not billable
Y92.1 Institutional (nonprivate) residence as the place of occurrence of the external cause Not billable
Y92.2 School, other institution and public administrative area as the place of occurrence of the external cause Not billable
Y92.3 Sports and athletics area as the place of occurrence of the external cause Not billable
Y92.4 Street, highway and other paved roadways as the place of occurrence of the external cause Not billable
Y92.5 Trade and service area as the place of occurrence of the external cause Not billable
Y92.6 Industrial and construction area as the place of occurrence of the external cause Not billable
Y92.7 Farm as the place of occurrence of the external cause Not billable
Y92.8 Other places as the place of occurrence of the external cause Not billable