X37.8
X37.8: Other cataclysmic storms
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
X37.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other cataclysmic storms. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X37
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- flood (X38)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Cloudburst
- Torrential rain
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Cloudburst(any injury)
- Torrential rain(any injury)
- Forces of nature›cloudburst
- Drowning›due to›cloudburst
- Drowning›due to›torrential rain
- Forces of nature›cataclysmic storm›cloudburst
- Forces of nature›cataclysmic storm›specified storm NEC
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead X37.8
3 child codes. Green means billable.