Y36
Y36: Operations of war
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for operations of war. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category Y36
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Includes
Conditions this code covers.
- injuries to military personnel and civilians caused by war, civil insurrection, and peacekeeping missions
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- V90Drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft
- V91Other injury due to accident to watercraft
- V92Drowning and submersion due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft
- V93Other injury due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft
- V94Other and unspecified water transport accidents
- W32Accidental handgun discharge and malfunction
- W33Accidental rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge and malfunction
- W40Explosion of other materials
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead Y36
11 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y36.0War operations involving explosion of marine weapons
- Y36.1War operations involving destruction of aircraft
- Y36.2War operations involving other explosions and fragments
- Y36.3War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
- Y36.4War operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare
- Y36.5War operations involving nuclear weapons
- Y36.6War operations involving biological weapons
- Y36.7War operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare
- Y36.8War operations occurring after cessation of hostilities
- Y36.9Other and unspecified war operations
- Y36.ABlast overpressure in war operations