V93.5: Explosion on board watercraft
V93.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for explosion 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
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.
- fire on board watercraft (V93.0-)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Boiler explosion on steamship
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above V93.5
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above V93.5
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with V93.5
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.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead V93.5
6 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under V93
- V93.0Burn due to localized fire on board watercraft
- V93.1Other burn on board watercraft
- V93.2Heat exposure on board watercraft
- V93.3Fall on board watercraft
- V93.4Struck by falling object on board watercraft
- V93.6Machinery accident on board watercraft
- V93.8Other injury due to other accident on board watercraft