W93.12 — Inhalation of liquid air
W93.12 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for inhalation of liquid air. 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 W93
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Inhalation of liquid hydrogen
- Inhalation of liquid nitrogen
Risk adjustment
W93.12 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How W93.12 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to W93.12.
- Inhalation›liquid air, hydrogen, nitrogen
- Exposure›cold›due to›man-made conditions›liquid air›inhalation
Code to one of these instead W93.12
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share W93.1. If W93.12 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about W93.12
- Is W93.12 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. W93.12 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does W93.12 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Exposure to electric current, radiation and extreme ambient air temperature and pressure (W85-W99).