Y36.25 — War operations involving fragments from munitions
Y36.25 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving fragments from munitions. 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
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36.25
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Y36.25. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Y36.25 alone.
- Y36.43War operations involving other firearms discharge
Risk adjustment
Y36.25 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 Y36.25
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y36.2. If Y36.25 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
- Y36.26War operations involving fragments of improvised explosive device [IED]
- Y36.27War operations involving fragments from weapons
- Y36.29War operations involving other explosions and fragments
Questions about Y36.25
- Is Y36.25 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y36.25 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y36.25 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).