V94.4 — Injury to barefoot water-skier
V94.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury to barefoot water-skier. 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 person being pulled behind boat or ship
Risk adjustment
V94.4 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 V94.4 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 V94.4.
- Accident›barefoot water skier
Code to one of these instead V94.4
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V94. If V94.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- V94.0Hitting object or bottom of body of water due to fall from watercraft
- V94.1Bather struck by watercraft
- V94.2Rider of nonpowered watercraft struck by other watercraft
- V94.3Injury to rider of (inflatable) watercraft being pulled behind other watercraft
- V94.8Other water transport accident
- V94.9Unspecified water transport accident
Questions about V94.4
- Is V94.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V94.4 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V94.4 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Water transport accidents (V90-V94).