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V91.89

V91.89: Other injury due to other accident to unspecified watercraft

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V91.89 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other injury due to other accident to unspecified 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

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

  • Other injury due to other accident to boat NOS
  • Other injury due to other accident to ship NOS
  • Other injury due to other accident to watercraft NOS

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above V91.89

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on V91: Other injury due to accident to watercraft

  • civilian water transport accident involving military watercraft (V94.81-)
  • military watercraft accident in military or war operations (Y36, Y37.-)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above V91.89

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on V91: Other injury due to accident to watercraft

  • drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft (V90.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with V91.89

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • V93Other injury due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Accident›watercraft›causing›injury NEC
  • Accident›watercraft›causing›injury NEC›specified type NEC

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead V91.89

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under V91.8

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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