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V94.3

V94.3: Injury to rider of (inflatable) watercraft being pulled behind other watercraft

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

V94.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury to rider of (inflatable) watercraft being pulled behind other 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

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above V94.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on V94: Other and unspecified water transport accidents

  • military watercraft accidents in military or war operations (Y36, Y37)

Other codes that can never be billed with V94.3

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.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead V94.3

2 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under V94

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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