V94.31
V94.31: Injury to rider of (inflatable) recreational watercraft being pulled behind other watercraft
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
V94.31 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury to rider of (inflatable) recreational 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Injury to rider of inner-tube pulled behind motor boat
Other codes that can never be billed with V94.31
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
- Accident›on board watercraft›unpowered craft›inflatable›in tow›recreational
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead V94.31
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V94.31XAInjury to rider of (inflatable) recreational watercraft being pulled behind other watercraft, initial encounter
- V94.31XDInjury to rider of (inflatable) recreational watercraft being pulled behind other watercraft, subsequent encounter
- V94.31XSInjury to rider of (inflatable) recreational watercraft being pulled behind other watercraft, sequela