W31.81
W31.81: Contact with recreational machinery
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
W31.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with recreational 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 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 roller coaster
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above W31.81
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with W31.81
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Contact›with›bumper cars
- Contact›with›flying horses
- Contact›with›merry go round
- Contact›with›roller coaster
- Contact›with›machine, machinery›recreational
- Contact›with›machine, machinery›roller-coaster
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead W31.81
3 child codes. Green means billable.