W18.40

W18.40: Slipping, tripping and stumbling without falling, unspecified

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

W18.40 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for slipping, tripping and stumbling without falling, unspecified. 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 W18

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above W18.40

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on W18.4: Slipping, tripping and stumbling without falling

collision with another person without fall (W51)

Other codes that can never be billed with W18.40

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

W01Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Slipping›without fall
Stumbling›without fall
Tripping›without fall

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead W18.40

3 child codes. Green means billable.