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
Other codes that can never be billed with V90.38
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V90.38. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V90.38 alone.
- 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
V90.38 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 V90.38 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 V90.38.
- Drowning›due to›accident›watercraft›crushed›unpowered
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
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V90.3. If V90.38 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
Questions about V90.38
- Is V90.38 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V90.38 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V90.38 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Water transport accidents (V90-V94).