V93.8

V93.8: Other injury due to other accident on board watercraft

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V93.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other injury due to other accident 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

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Accidental poisoning by gases or fumes on watercraft

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above V93.8

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on V93: Other injury due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft

civilian water transport accident involving military watercraft (V94.81-)
other injury due to accident to watercraft (V91.-)
military watercraft accident in military or war operations (Y36, Y37.-)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above V93.8

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on V93: Other injury due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft

drowning and submersion due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft (V92.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with V93.8

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 V93.8

10 child codes. Green means billable.