W24.0
W24.0: Contact with lifting devices, not elsewhere classified
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
W24.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with lifting devices, not elsewhere classified. 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 W24
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Contact with chain hoist
- Contact with drive belt
- Contact with pulley (block)
Other codes that can never be billed with W24.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- W23Caught, crushed, jammed or pinched in or between objects
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Accident›caused by, due to›chain hoist
- Accident›caused by, due to›drive belt
- Accident›caused by, due to›lifting device
- Accident›caused by, due to›pulley(block)
- Contact›with›crane
- Contact›with›derrick
- Contact›with›drive belt
- Contact›with›elevator(building)
- Contact›with›forklift(truck)
- Contact›with›hoist NEC(chain) (shaft)
- Contact›with›lift, lifting(devices)
- Contact›with›pulley(block) (transmission)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead W24.0
3 child codes. Green means billable.