W24.1
W24.1: Contact with transmission devices, not elsewhere classified
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
W24.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with transmission 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 transmission belt or cable
Other codes that can never be billed with W24.1
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›transmission device
- Contact›with›conveyer belt
- Contact›with›transmission device(belt, cable, chain, gear, pinion, shaft)
- Contact›with›machine, machinery›transmission
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead W24.1
3 child codes. Green means billable.