W17.89
W17.89: Other fall from one level to another
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
W17.89 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other fall from one level to another. 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Fall from cherry picker
- Fall from lifting device
- Fall from mobile elevated work platform [MEWP]
- Fall from sky lift
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›cherry picker
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›haystack
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›high place NEC
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›lifting device
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›mobile elevated work platform [MEWP]
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›one level to another NEC
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›quarry
- Fall, falling›from, off, out of›sky lift
- Fall, falling›into›haystack
- Fall, falling›into›opening in surface NEC
- Fall, falling›into›quarry
- Fall, falling›into›shaft
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead W17.89
3 child codes. Green means billable.