2025 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code W54

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Contact with dog

  • W54 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.
  • The 2025 edition of ICD-10-CM W54 became effective on October 1, 2024.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of W54 – other international versions of ICD-10 W54 may differ.

ICD-10-CM Coding Rules

  • W54 describes the circumstance causing an injury, not the nature of the injury.

Includes

  • contact with saliva, feces or urine of dog

The following code(s) above W54 contain annotation back-references

 that may be applicable to W54:

  • V00-Y99  External causes of morbidity
  • W50-W64  Exposure to animate mechanical forces

Code History

  • 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
  • 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
  • 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
  • 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
  • 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
  • 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
  • 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
  • 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
  • 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change
  • 2025 (effective 10/1/2024): No change

Code annotations containing back-references to W54:

  • Type 1 Excludes: W55
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