V90.3 — Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed watercraft
V90.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed watercraft. 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 V90.3
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V90.3. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V90.3 alone.
- V91.2Fall due to collision between watercraft and other watercraft or other object
- V92.07Drowning and submersion due to fall off water-skis
- V92.07XADrowning and submersion due to fall off water-skis, initial encounter
- V92.07XDDrowning and submersion due to fall off water-skis, subsequent encounter
- V92.07XSDrowning and submersion due to fall off water-skis, sequela
- V92.08Drowning and submersion due to fall off other unpowered watercraft
- V92.08XADrowning and submersion due to fall off other unpowered watercraft, initial encounter
- V92.08XDDrowning and submersion due to fall off other unpowered watercraft, subsequent encounter
Risk adjustment
V90.3 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.
Code to one of these instead V90.3
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- V90.30Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed merchant ship
- V90.31Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed passenger ship
- V90.32Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed fishing boat
- V90.33Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other crushed powered watercraft
- V90.34Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed sailboat
- V90.35Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed canoe or kayak
- V90.36Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed (nonpowered) inflatable craft
- V90.37Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed water-skis
- V90.38Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other crushed unpowered watercraft
- V90.39Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed unspecified watercraft
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V90. If V90.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V90.3
- Is V90.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V90.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V90.3 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Water transport accidents (V90-V94).