Y36.27
Y36.27 — War operations involving fragments from weapons
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36.27 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving fragments from weapons. 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
Risk adjustment
Y36.27 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 Y36.27
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y36.2. If Y36.27 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
- Y36.25War operations involving fragments from munitions
- Y36.26War operations involving fragments of improvised explosive device [IED]
- Y36.29War operations involving other explosions and fragments
Questions about Y36.27
- Is Y36.27 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y36.27 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y36.27 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).