V93.4: Struck by falling object on board watercraft
V93.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for struck by falling object on board 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
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- struck by falling object due to accident to watercraft (V91.3)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Hit by falling object on board watercraft
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above V93.4
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above V93.4
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with V93.4
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
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 V93.4
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- V93.40Struck by falling object on merchant ship
- V93.41Struck by falling object on passenger ship
- V93.42Struck by falling object on fishing boat
- V93.43Struck by falling object on other powered watercraft
- V93.44Struck by falling object on sailboat
- V93.48Struck by falling object on other unpowered watercraft
- V93.49Struck by falling object on unspecified watercraft