V94.0
V94.0: Hitting object or bottom of body of water due to fall from watercraft
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
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
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- V92.07Drowning and submersion due to fall off water-skis
- V92.07XADrowning and submersion due to fall off water-skis, initial encounter
- V92.07XDDrowning and submersion due to fall off water-skis, subsequent encounter
- V92.07XSDrowning and submersion due to fall off water-skis, sequela
- V92.08Drowning and submersion due to fall off other unpowered watercraft
- V92.08XADrowning and submersion due to fall off other unpowered watercraft, initial encounter
- V92.08XDDrowning and submersion due to fall off other unpowered watercraft, subsequent encounter
- V92.08XSDrowning and submersion due to fall off other unpowered watercraft, sequela
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- 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 history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead V94.0
3 child codes. Green means billable.