W29.3

W29.3: Contact with powered garden and outdoor hand tools and machinery

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

W29.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with powered garden and outdoor hand tools and machinery. 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 W29

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

contact with powered lawn mower (W28)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Contact with chainsaw
Contact with edger
Contact with garden cultivator (tiller)
Contact with hedge trimmer
Contact with other powered garden tool

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above W29.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on W29: Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery

contact with commercial machinery (W31.82)
contact with hot household appliance (X15)
contact with nonpowered hand tool (W27.-)
exposure to electric current (W86)

Other codes that can never be billed with W29.3

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

W31.82Contact with other commercial machinery
W31.82XAContact with other commercial machinery, initial encounter
W31.82XDContact with other commercial machinery, subsequent encounter
W31.82XSContact with other commercial machinery, sequela
X15Contact with hot household appliances
X16Contact with hot heating appliances, radiators and pipes
X16.XXXAContact with hot heating appliances, radiators and pipes, initial encounter
X16.XXXDContact with hot heating appliances, radiators and pipes, subsequent encounter

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Contact›with›hedge-trimmer(powered)
Contact›with›chain›saw
Contact›with›garden›cultivator(powered)
Contact›with›powered›garden cultivator
Contact›with›saw›chain
Contact›with›tool›powered›chainsaw
Contact›with›tool›powered›edger
Contact›with›tool›powered›garden tool
Contact›with›tool›powered›hedge trimmer
Contact›with›tool›powered›rototiller