W16.0Fall into swimming pool

W16.0 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for fall into swimming pool. It belongs to category W16 (fall, jump or diving into water), block W00-W19 (slipping, tripping, stumbling and falls) and chapter 20 (external causes of morbidity). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within W16 (fall, jump or diving into water), W16.0 is specifically for fall into swimming pool. Related codes cover fall into natural body of water (W16.1), fall in (into) filled bathtub or bucket of water (W16.2), fall into other water (W16.3), fall into unspecified water (W16.4), jumping or diving into swimming pool (W16.5), jumping or diving into natural body of water (W16.6), jumping or diving from boat (W16.7), jumping or diving into other water (W16.8) and 1 more.

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

Don't report W16.0 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: fall into empty swimming pool (W17.3).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.