991.4 IMMERSION FOOT


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 991.4

Short Description: Immersion foot

Long Description: Immersion foot

Code Classification:

  • Injury and poisoning (800–999)
    • Other and unspecified effects of external causes (990-995)
      • 991 Effects of reduced temperature
        • 991.4 Immersion foot

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 991.4 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Acrotrophodynia 991.4
  • Effect, adverse NEC
    • immersion, foot 991.4
    • reduced temperature 991.9
      • immersion, foot (hand) 991.4
  • Immersion 994.1
    • foot 991.4
    • hand 991.4
  • Maceration
    • wet feet, tropical (syndrome) 991.4
  • Stasis
    • foot 991.4
  • Syndrome - see also Disease
    • tropical wet feet 991.4
    • wet
      • feet (maceration) (tropical) 991.4
  • Trench
    • foot 991.4
  • Tropical - see also condition
    • maceration feet (syndrome) 991.4
    • wet foot (syndrome) 991.4
  • Wet
    • feet, tropical (syndrome) (maceration) 991.4

Crosswalk Information

The code 991.4 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
991.4 Right Arrow T69.029A Immersion foot, unspecified foot, initial encounter
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
991.0 Frostbite of face
991.1 Frostbite of hand
991.2 Frostbite of foot
991.3 Frostbite of other and unspecified sites
991.5 Chilblains
991.6 Hypothermia
991.8 Other specified effects of reduced temperature
991.9 Unspecified effect of reduced temperature


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