W27.1

W27.1: Contact with garden tool

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

W27.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with garden tool. 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 W27

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 hoe
Contact with nonpowered lawn mower
Contact with pitchfork
Contact with rake

Other codes that can never be billed with W27.1

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

W23Caught, crushed, jammed or pinched in or between objects
W28Contact with powered lawn mower
W28.XXXAContact with powered lawn mower, initial encounter
W28.XXXDContact with powered lawn mower, subsequent encounter
W28.XXXSContact with powered lawn mower, sequela
W29Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Contact›with›hoe
Contact›with›pitchfork
Contact›with›rake
Contact›with›spade
Contact›with›garden›fork
Contact›with›lawnmower›unpowered
Contact›with›tool›hand›garden
Contact›with›tool›hand›hoe
Contact›with›tool›hand›pitchfork
Contact›with›tool›hand›rake
Contact›with›tool›hand›manual›lawn mower