Is W16.711 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

No. W16.711 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.

Where does W16.711 sit in the tabular list?

External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Slipping, tripping, stumbling and falls (W00-W19).

W16.711

W16.711 — Jumping or diving from boat striking water surface causing drowning and submersion

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

W16.711 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for jumping or diving from boat striking water surface causing drowning and submersion. 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

Other codes that can never be billed with W16.711

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at W16.711. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading W16.711 alone.

V92Drowning and submersion due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft

Risk adjustment

W16.711 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 W16.711 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 W16.711.

Drowning›due to›jumping into water from watercraft›without accident to or on watercraft
Drowning›following›jump or dive›from boat
Jumped, jumping›from›boat›with›drowning or submersion

Code to one of these instead W16.711

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share W16.71. If W16.711 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

W16.712Jumping or diving from boat striking water surface causing other injury

Questions about W16.711

Is W16.711 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: No. W16.711 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
Where does W16.711 sit in the tabular list?: External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Slipping, tripping, stumbling and falls (W00-W19).