Y36.2 — War operations involving other explosions and fragments
Y36.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving other explosions and fragments. 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.
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36.2
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Y36.2. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Y36.2 alone.
- W40Explosion of other materials
- W40.8Explosion of other specified explosive materials
- W40.8XXAExplosion of other specified explosive materials, initial encounter
- W40.8XXDExplosion of other specified explosive materials, subsequent encounter
- W40.8XXSExplosion of other specified explosive materials, sequela
- X96.0Assault by antipersonnel bomb
- X96.0XXAAssault by antipersonnel bomb, initial encounter
- X96.0XXDAssault by antipersonnel bomb, subsequent encounter
Risk adjustment
Y36.2 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead Y36.2
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y36.20War operations involving unspecified explosion and fragments
- Y36.21War operations involving explosion of aerial bomb
- Y36.22War operations involving explosion of guided missile
- Y36.23War operations involving explosion of improvised explosive device [IED]
- Y36.24War operations involving explosion due to accidental detonation and discharge of own munitions or munitions launch device
- Y36.25War operations involving fragments from munitions
- Y36.26War operations involving fragments of improvised explosive device [IED]
- Y36.27War operations involving fragments from weapons
- Y36.29War operations involving other explosions and fragments
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y36. If Y36.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Y36.0War operations involving explosion of marine weapons
- Y36.1War operations involving destruction of aircraft
- 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
Questions about Y36.2
- Is Y36.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y36.2 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y36.2 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Legal intervention, operations of war, military operations, and terrorism (Y35-Y38).
- What cannot be coded together with Y36.2?
- Y36.2 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.