Y36.39
Y36.39: War operations involving other fires, conflagrations and hot substances
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36.39 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving other 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 inherited from the categories above Y36.39
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on Y36.3: War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
- 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-)
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36.39
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 Y36.39
2 child codes. Green means billable.