V93.29: Heat exposure on board unspecified watercraft
V93.29 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for heat exposure on board 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 V93
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Heat exposure on board boat NOS
- Heat exposure on board ship NOS
- Heat exposure on board watercraft NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above V93.29
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on V93.2: Heat exposure on board watercraft
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above V93.29
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with V93.29
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- V91.0Burn due to watercraft on fire
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Heat›due to›man-made conditions›on board watercraft
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead V93.29
3 child codes. Green means billable.