V94.810 — Civilian watercraft involved in water transport accident with military watercraft
V94.810 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for civilian watercraft involved in water transport accident with military 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.
- Passenger on civilian watercraft injured due to accident with military watercraft
Risk adjustment
V94.810 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 V94.810 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 V94.810.
- Accident›watercraft›military NEC›with civilian watercraft
Code to one of these instead V94.810
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- V94.810ACivilian watercraft involved in water transport accident with military watercraft, initial encounter
- V94.810DCivilian watercraft involved in water transport accident with military watercraft, subsequent encounter
- V94.810SCivilian watercraft involved in water transport accident with military watercraft, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share V94.81. If V94.810 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about V94.810
- Is V94.810 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. V94.810 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does V94.810 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Water transport accidents (V90-V94).