W17.3
W17.3: Fall into empty swimming pool
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
W17.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for fall into empty swimming pool. 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 W17
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- fall into filled swimming pool (W16.0-)
Other codes that can never be billed with W17.3
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- W16.0Fall into swimming pool
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Fall, falling›into›swimming pool›empty
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead W17.3
3 child codes. Green means billable.