W16.91
W16.91: Jumping or diving into unspecified water causing drowning and submersion
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
W16.91 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for jumping or diving into unspecified water 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 W16.91
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above W16.91
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with W16.91
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
- Jumped, jumping›into water›causing drowning
- Drowning›following›jump or dive›into›water NOS
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead W16.91
3 child codes. Green means billable.