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W29.3XXS

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

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

W29.3XXS is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for contact with powered garden and outdoor hand tools and machinery, sequela. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check W29.3XXS with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

7th character "S": sequela

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 W29.3XXS

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

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

  • contact with powered lawn mower (W28)

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 W29.3XXS

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.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under W29.3

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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