Y36.290 — War operations involving other explosions and fragments, military personnel
Y36.290 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving other explosions and fragments, military personnel. 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 inherited from the categories above Y36.290
These are not written on Y36.290, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing Y36.290 with anything listed here is a denial.
Written on Y36.2 — War operations involving other explosions and fragments
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36.290
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Y36.290. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Y36.290 alone.
Risk adjustment
Y36.290 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 history
Y36.290 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Code to one of these instead Y36.290
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y36.29. If Y36.290 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Y36.290
- Is Y36.290 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y36.290 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y36.290 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 Y36.290?
- Y36.290 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above Y36.290 (Y36.2, Y36) and apply to it just the same.