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2025 ICD-10-CM code W16.721

Jumping or diving from boat striking bottom causing drowning and submersion.

Use this code as a secondary code to a code from another chapter indicating the nature of the condition, typically from Chapter 19 (Injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes).

Medical necessity is established by the need for treatment of the drowning and submersion caused by striking the bottom after jumping or diving from a boat.

In simple words: Drowning and submersion occurred after jumping or diving from a boat and hitting the bottom.

Jumping or diving from boat striking bottom causing drowning and submersion.

Example 1: A patient jumps off a boat into shallow water, strikes the bottom, and experiences drowning and submersion requiring resuscitation., A patient dives off a boat, hits their head on the bottom, loses consciousness, and experiences drowning and submersion., A patient dives off a boat in a lake, becomes entangled in underwater vegetation after hitting the bottom, and experiences drowning and submersion.

Documentation should clearly describe the circumstances of the accident, including the height of the jump or dive, depth of the water, and any contributing factors like loss of consciousness or entanglement.

** Excludes1: assault involving a fall (Y01-Y02), fall from animal (V80.-), fall (in) (from) machinery (in operation) (W28-W31), fall (in) (from) transport vehicle (V01-V99), intentional self-harm involving a fall (X80-X81). Excludes2: at risk for fall (history of fall) Z91.81, fall (in) (from) burning building (X00.-), fall into fire (X00-X04, X08).

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