W16.112 — Fall into natural body of water striking water surface causing other injury
W16.112 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for fall into natural body of water striking water surface causing other injury. 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 W16
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
W16.112 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 W16.112 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 W16.112.
- Fall, falling›into›water›in›natural body of water
Code to one of these instead W16.112
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share W16.11. If W16.112 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about W16.112
- Is W16.112 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. W16.112 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does W16.112 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Slipping, tripping, stumbling and falls (W00-W19).