W31.3

W31.3: Contact with prime movers

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

W31.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with prime movers. 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 W31

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 gas turbine
Contact with internal combustion engine
Contact with steam engine
Contact with water driven turbine

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above W31.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on W31: Contact with other and unspecified machinery

contact with agricultural machinery (W30.-)
contact with machinery in transport under own power or being towed by a vehicle (V01-V99)
exposure to electric current (W86)

Other codes that can never be billed with W31.3

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

V83Occupant of special vehicle mainly used on industrial premises injured in transport accident
V85Occupant of special construction vehicle injured in transport accident
V86Occupant of special all-terrain or other off-road motor vehicle, injured in transport accident

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Contact›with›gas turbine
Contact›with›turbine(gas) (water-driven)
Accident›caused by, due to›electric›motor
Contact›with›machine, machinery›gas turbine
Contact›with›machine, machinery›internal combustion engine
Contact›with›machine, machinery›prime mover
Contact›with›machine, machinery›steam engine
Contact›with›machine, machinery›water driven turbine
Contact›with›steam›engine