V90.27 — Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning water-skis
V90.27 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning water-skis. 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 V90
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Other codes that can never be billed with V90.27
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V90.27. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V90.27 alone.
Risk adjustment
V90.27 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How V90.27 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to V90.27.
- Drowning›due to›accident›watercraft›burning›unpowered›water skis
Code to one of these instead V90.27
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V90.2. If V90.27 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V90.20Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning merchant ship
- V90.21Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning passenger ship
- V90.22Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning fishing boat
- V90.23Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other burning powered watercraft
- V90.24Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning sailboat
- V90.25Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning canoe or kayak
- V90.26Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning (nonpowered) inflatable craft
- V90.28Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other burning unpowered watercraft
- V90.29Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from unspecified burning watercraft
Questions about V90.27
- Is V90.27 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V90.27 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V90.27 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Water transport accidents (V90-V94).