ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W00-W19 › W16.03 Fall into swimming pool striking wall › W16.032

W16.032

Fall into swimming pool striking wall causing other injury

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • W16.032A Fall into swimming pool striking wall causing other injury, initial encounter
  • W16.032D Fall into swimming pool striking wall causing other injury, subsequent encounter
  • W16.032S Fall into swimming pool striking wall causing other injury, sequela

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2014 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Fall into swimming pool striking wall causing other injury

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from W16 Fall, jump or diving into water

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W16

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • accidental non-watercraft drowning and submersion not involving fall (W65-W74)
  • effects of air pressure from diving (W94.-)
  • fall into water from watercraft (V90-V94)
  • hitting an object or against bottom when falling from watercraft (V94.0)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • striking or hitting diving board (W21.4)

Inherited from the W00-W19 section Slipping, tripping, stumbling and falls (W00-W19)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • assault involving a fall (Y01-Y02)
  • fall from animal (V80.-)
  • fall (in) (from) machinery (in operation) (W28-W31)
  • fall (in) (from) transport vehicle (V01-V99)
  • intentional self-harm involving a fall (X80-X81)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • at risk for fall (history of fall) Z91.81
  • fall (in) (from) burning building (X00.-)
  • fall into fire (X00-X04, X08)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
W16.031 Fall into swimming pool striking wall causing drowning and submersion Not billable