V91.3 — Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to watercraft
V91.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for hit or struck by falling object due to accident to 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 V91
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Hit or struck by falling object (part of damaged watercraft or other object) after falling or jumping from damaged watercraft
Other codes that can never be billed with V91.3
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V91.3. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V91.3 alone.
- V93.4Struck by falling object on board watercraft
Risk adjustment
V91.3 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 V91.3
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- V91.30Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to merchant ship
- V91.31Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to passenger ship
- V91.32Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to fishing boat
- V91.33Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to other powered watercraft
- V91.34Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to sailboat
- V91.35Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to canoe or kayak
- V91.36Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to (nonpowered) inflatable craft
- V91.37Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to water-skis
- V91.38Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to other unpowered watercraft
- V91.39Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to unspecified watercraft
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V91. If V91.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V91.3
- Is V91.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V91.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V91.3 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Water transport accidents (V90-V94).