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
Risk adjustment
V93.5 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead V93.5
6 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V93. If V93.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
Questions about V93.5
- Is V93.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V93.5 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V93.5 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Water transport accidents (V90-V94).