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V94 vs W16.92XD

V94 (Other and unspecified water transport accidents) compared with W16.92XD (Jumping or diving into unspecified water causing other injury, subsequent encounter), from the official CMS tabular data. Do not report these codes together: the official tabular list marks them Excludes1.

Relationship

Conflict

Excludes1 conflict

W16.92XD
Jumping or diving into unspecified water causing other injury, subsequent encounter
↔
V94
Other and unspecified water transport accidents

Not coded here — these two are mutually exclusive.

“fall into water from watercraft (V90-V94)”

An Excludes1 note means the two conditions cannot occur together, so the pair should not be reported for the same encounter. The sole exception is when the conditions are documented as unrelated to each other.

Source: CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes; ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a

Can these codes be reported together?

No — do not report together. W16.92XD carries an Excludes1 note covering V94: “fall into water from watercraft (V90-V94)”

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

V94Other and unspecified water transport accidentsW16.92XDJumping or diving into unspecified water causing other injury, subsequent encounter
Billing statusNon-billable header

Report instead: V94.0XXA, V94.0XXD, V94.0XXS, V94.11XA, V94.11XD

Billable
ClassificationV00-Y99 — External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99)V00-Y99 — External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99)
DefinitionOther and unspecified water transport accidents is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code (V94).Jumping or diving into unspecified water causing other injury, subsequent encounter is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (W16.92D).
7th characterThe appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V94The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W16
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Derived from the official CMS ICD-10-CM tabular data (FY2026). Not billing advice; verify sequencing rules for the encounter. All data sources