V92.0: Drowning and submersion due to fall off watercraft
V92.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for drowning and submersion due to fall off 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 V92
- 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.
- hitting head on object or bottom of body of water due to fall from watercraft (V94.0-)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Drowning and submersion due to fall from gangplank of watercraft
- Drowning and submersion due to fall overboard watercraft
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above V92.0
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on V92: Drowning and submersion due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft
- civilian water transport accident involving military watercraft (V94.81-)
- drowning or submersion due to accident to watercraft (V90-V91)
- drowning or submersion of diver who voluntarily jumps from boat not involved in an accident (W16.711, W16.721)
- fall into water without watercraft (W16.-)
- military watercraft accident in military or war operations (Y36, Y37)
Other codes that can never be billed with V92.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- V90Drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft
- V92.1Drowning and submersion due to being thrown overboard by motion of watercraft
- V92.27Drowning and submersion due to being washed overboard from water-skis
- V92.27XADrowning and submersion due to being washed overboard from water-skis, initial encounter
- V92.27XDDrowning and submersion due to being washed overboard from water-skis, subsequent encounter
- V92.27XSDrowning and submersion due to being washed overboard from water-skis, sequela
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead V92.0
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- V92.00Drowning and submersion due to fall off merchant ship
- V92.01Drowning and submersion due to fall off passenger ship
- V92.02Drowning and submersion due to fall off fishing boat
- V92.03Drowning and submersion due to fall off other powered watercraft
- V92.04Drowning and submersion due to fall off sailboat
- V92.05Drowning and submersion due to fall off canoe or kayak
- V92.06Drowning and submersion due to fall off (nonpowered) inflatable craft
- V92.07Drowning and submersion due to fall off water-skis
- V92.08Drowning and submersion due to fall off other unpowered watercraft
- V92.09Drowning and submersion due to fall off unspecified watercraft