W16.721
W16.721: Jumping or diving from boat striking bottom causing drowning and submersion
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
W16.721 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for jumping or diving from boat striking bottom 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
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above W16.721
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on W16.7: Jumping or diving from boat
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above W16.721
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with W16.721
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Drowning›following›jump or dive›from boat›striking bottom
- Jumped, jumping›from›boat›striking bottom›causing drowning
- Striking against›bottom when›diving or jumping into water›from boat›causing drowning
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead W16.721
3 child codes. Green means billable.