Y36.20: War operations involving unspecified explosion and fragments
Y36.20 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving unspecified explosion 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- War operations involving air blast NOS
- War operations involving blast NOS
- War operations involving blast fragments NOS
- War operations involving blast wave NOS
- War operations involving blast wind NOS
- War operations involving explosion NOS
- War operations involving explosion of bomb NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Y36.20
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on Y36.2: War operations involving other explosions and fragments
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36.20
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
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 Y36.20
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under Y36.2
- 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