V94.9Unspecified water transport accident

V94.9 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for unspecified water transport accident. It belongs to category V94 (other and unspecified water transport accidents), block V90-V94 (water transport accidents) and chapter 20 (external causes of morbidity). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within V94, choose V94.9 (Unspecified water transport accident) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: Hitting object or bottom of body of water due to fall from watercraft (V94.0), Bather struck by watercraft (V94.1), rider of nonpowered watercraft struck by other watercraft (V94.2), injury to rider of (inflatable) watercraft being pulled behind other watercraft (V94.3), injury to barefoot water-skier (V94.4) and other water transport accident (V94.8).

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.