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V91 vs V93.23XS

V91 (Other injury due to accident to watercraft) compared with V93.23XS (Heat exposure on board other powered watercraft, sequela), from the official CMS tabular data. Do not report these codes together: the official tabular list marks them Excludes1.

Can these codes be reported together?

No — do not report together. V93.23XS carries an Excludes1 note covering V91: “other injury due to accident to watercraft (V91.-)”

Sole exception: when the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Side by side

V91Other injury due to accident to watercraftV93.23XSHeat exposure on board other powered watercraft, sequela
Billing statusNon-billable header

Report instead: V91.00XA, V91.00XD, V91.00XS, V91.01XA, V91.01XD

Billable
ClassificationV00-Y99 — External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99)V00-Y99 — External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99)
DefinitionOther injury due to accident to watercraft is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code (V91).Heat exposure on board other powered watercraft, sequela is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (V93.23S).
7th characterThe appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V91The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V93
Includes
any injury except drowning and submersion as a result of an accident to watercraft
Heat exposure on board hovercraft

Derived from the official CMS ICD-10-CM tabular data (FY2026). Not billing advice; verify sequencing rules for the encounter. All data sources