ICD-9 Code E802.9

Railway accident involving derailment without antecedent collision injuring unspecified person

Not Valid for Submission

E802.9 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of railway accident involving derailment without antecedent collision injuring unspecified person. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.

ICD-9: E802.9
Short Description:RR acc w derail-pers NOS
Long Description:Railway accident involving derailment without antecedent collision injuring unspecified person

Convert E802.9 to ICD-10

The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:

  • V81.7XXA - Occ of rail trn/veh inj in derail w/o antecedent clsn, init

Code Classification

  • External causes of injury (V)
    • Railway accidents (E800-E807)
      • E802 Railway accident involving derailment without antecedent collision

Information for Medical Professionals

ICD-9 Footnotes

General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.

  • Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
  • No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
  • Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.