Y36.43: War operations involving other firearms discharge
Y36.43 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving other firearms discharge. 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.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- War operations involving bullets NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Y36.43
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36.43
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 Y36.43
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under Y36.4
- Y36.41War operations involving rubber bullets
- Y36.42War operations involving firearms pellets
- Y36.44War operations involving unarmed hand to hand combat
- Y36.45War operations involving combat using blunt or piercing object
- Y36.46War operations involving intentional restriction of air and airway
- Y36.47War operations involving unintentional restriction of air and airway
- Y36.49War operations involving other forms of conventional warfare