W27.8

W27.8: Contact with other nonpowered hand tool

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

W27.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with other nonpowered hand 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 nonpowered sewing machine
Contact with shovel

Other codes that can never be billed with W27.8

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

W23Caught, crushed, jammed or pinched in or between objects
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›shovel
Contact›with›tool
Contact›with›drill›nonpowered
Contact›with›hand›tool NEC(not powered)
Contact›with›sewing-machine›not powered
Contact›with›tool›hand(not powered)
Contact›with›tool›hand›specified NEC
Contact›with›tool›hand›manual›sewing machine