V90.38: Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other crushed unpowered watercraft
V90.38 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other crushed unpowered 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Drowning and submersion due to falling and jumping from crushed surf-board
- Drowning and submersion due to falling and jumping from crushed windsurfer
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above V90.38
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on V90: Drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft
Other codes that can never be billed with V90.38
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- 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
- V92.08XSDrowning and submersion due to fall off other unpowered watercraft, sequela
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Drowning›due to›accident›watercraft›crushed›unpowered
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead V90.38
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V90.38XADrowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other crushed unpowered watercraft, initial encounter
- V90.38XDDrowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other crushed unpowered watercraft, subsequent encounter
- V90.38XSDrowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from other crushed unpowered watercraft, sequela
Other codes under V90.3
- 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
- V90.39Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed unspecified watercraft