V94.8 — Other water transport accident
V94.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other water transport accident. 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
Other codes that can never be billed with V94.8
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at V94.8. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading V94.8 alone.
- V90Drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft
- V91Other injury due to accident to watercraft
- V92Drowning and submersion due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft
- V93Other injury due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft
- Y37Military operations
Risk adjustment
V94.8 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.
Code to one of these instead V94.8
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V94. If V94.8 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
- V94.4Injury to barefoot water-skier
- V94.9Unspecified water transport accident
Questions about V94.8
- Is V94.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V94.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V94.8 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Water transport accidents (V90-V94).