W21.32
W21.32: Struck by skate blades
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
W21.32 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for struck by skate blades. 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 W21
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Skated over by skate blades
Other codes that can never be billed with W21.32
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- W20Struck by thrown, projected or falling object
- W20.8Other cause of strike by thrown, projected or falling object
- W20.8XXAOther cause of strike by thrown, projected or falling object, initial encounter
- W20.8XXDOther cause of strike by thrown, projected or falling object, subsequent encounter
- W20.8XXSOther cause of strike by thrown, projected or falling object, sequela
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Struck by›sports equipment›skate blades
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead W21.32
3 child codes. Green means billable.