V94.0 — Hitting object or bottom of body of water due to fall from watercraft
V94.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for hitting object or bottom of body of water due to fall from 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 V94
- 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.
- drowning and submersion due to fall from watercraft (V92.0-)
Other codes that can never be billed with V94.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V94.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V94.0 alone.
- W16Fall, jump or diving into water
Risk adjustment
V94.0 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.
How V94.0 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to V94.0.
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›boat, ship, watercraft NEC›with hitting bottom or object
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›watercraft›with hitting bottom or object
Code to one of these instead V94.0
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V94. If V94.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V94.0
- Is V94.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V94.0 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V94.0 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Water transport accidents (V90-V94).