W29.8
W29.8: Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
W29.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with other powered hand tools and household 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Contact with do-it-yourself tool NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above W29.8
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with W29.8
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›drill(powered)
- Contact›with›sander
- Contact›with›staple gun(powered)
- Contact›with›powered›household appliance, implement, or machine
- Contact›with›screwdriver›powered
- Contact›with›tool›powered
- Contact›with›hand›tool NEC›powered
- Contact›with›powered›saw›hand
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead W29.8
3 child codes. Green means billable.