ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W20-W49 › W27 Contact with nonpowered hand tool › W27.3
Contact with needle (sewing)
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- W27.3XXA Contact with needle (sewing), initial encounter
- W27.3XXD Contact with needle (sewing), subsequent encounter
- W27.3XXS Contact with needle (sewing), 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Contact with needle (sewing)
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 W27 Contact with nonpowered hand tool
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W27
Inherited from the W20-W49 section Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces (W20-W49)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- assault (X92-Y09)
- contact or collision with animals or persons (W50-W64)
- exposure to inanimate mechanical forces involving military or war operations (Y36.-, Y37.-)
- intentional self-harm (X71-X83)
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.
- Immersion
- Submersion
- Stab, stabbing
- Sinking > watercraft
- Overturning > watercraft
- Trapped > between objects
- Contact > with > marine > animal > mammal
- Accident > watercraft > causing > drowning
- Contact > with > animal NEC > marine > mammal
- Drowning > resulting from accident to watercraft
- Accident > diving > with > drowning or submersion
- Drowning > due to > jumping into water from watercraft
- Striking against > object > with > drowning or submersion
- Accident > transport > occupant > watercraft NOS > causing drowning
- Drowning > due to > fall overboard > resulting from > accident to watercraft
- Contact > with > needle
- Contact > with > tool > hand > needle
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| W27.0 | Contact with workbench tool | Not billable |
| W27.1 | Contact with garden tool | Not billable |
| W27.2 | Contact with scissors | Not billable |
| W27.4 | Contact with kitchen utensil | Not billable |
| W27.5 | Contact with paper-cutter | Not billable |
| W27.8 | Contact with other nonpowered hand tool | Not billable |