T75.1
Unspecified effects of drowning and nonfatal submersion
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
This is the unspecified option. 5 more
specific codes sit alongside it. Worth
checking whether the documentation supports one of them.
Exclusions 5 never code together
T75.1code
Excludes1
- specified effects of drowning- code to effects
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
7th character 3
A initial encounter
D subsequent encounter
S sequela
Instructional notes 4
T75.1code
Inclusion terms
- Immersion
S00-T88chapter
Notes
- Use secondary code(s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code
- The chapter uses the S-section for coding different types of injuries related to single body regions and the T-section to cover injuries to unspecified body regions as well as poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
Use additional code
- code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)Z18.-
Index entries leading here 11
- Anoxia (pathological) R09.02
- due to
- drowning T75.1
- due to
- Asphyxia, asphyxiation (by) R09.01
- Cramp (s) R25.2
- Bathing cramp T75.1
- Swimmer's
- cramp T75.1
- Drowned, drowning (near) T75.1
- Edema, edematous (infectious) (pitting) (toxic) R60.9
- Effect, adverse
- submersion T75.1
- Immersion T75.1
- Near drowning T75.1
- Submersion (fatal) (nonfatal) T75.1
Alongside this code 5 same parent — T75
Medications 1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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