Y36.3: War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
Y36.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances. 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.
- war operations involving fires and conflagrations aboard military aircraft (Y36.1-)
- war operations involving fires and conflagrations aboard military watercraft (Y36.0-)
- war operations involving fires and conflagrations caused indirectly by conventional weapons (Y36.2-)
- war operations involving fires and thermal effects of nuclear weapons (Y36.53-)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- War operations involving smoke, fumes, and heat from fires, conflagrations and hot substances
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Y36.3
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36.3
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- W49Exposure to other inanimate mechanical forces
- Y36.43War operations involving other firearms discharge
- Y36.7War operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare
- Y37Military operations
- Y37.7Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare
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 Y36.3
5 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under Y36
- Y36.0War operations involving explosion of marine weapons
- Y36.1War operations involving destruction of aircraft
- Y36.2War operations involving other explosions and fragments
- 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