V90.88 — Drowning and submersion due to other accident to other unpowered watercraft
V90.88 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for drowning and submersion due to other accident to other 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 other accident to surf-board
- Drowning and submersion due to other accident to windsurfer
Other codes that can never be billed with V90.88
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V90.88. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V90.88 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
V90.88 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 V90.88 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 V90.88.
- Drowning›due to›accident›watercraft›specified type NEC›unpowered
Code to one of these instead V90.88
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V90.8. If V90.88 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V90.80Drowning and submersion due to other accident to merchant ship
- V90.81Drowning and submersion due to other accident to passenger ship
- V90.82Drowning and submersion due to other accident to fishing boat
- V90.83Drowning and submersion due to other accident to other powered watercraft
- V90.84Drowning and submersion due to other accident to sailboat
- V90.85Drowning and submersion due to other accident to canoe or kayak
- V90.86Drowning and submersion due to other accident to (nonpowered) inflatable craft
- V90.87Drowning and submersion due to other accident to water-skis
- V90.89Drowning and submersion due to other accident to unspecified watercraft
Questions about V90.88
- Is V90.88 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V90.88 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V90.88 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Water transport accidents (V90-V94).