Y36.460
Y36.460 — War operations involving intentional restriction of air and airway, military personnel
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36.460 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving intentional restriction of air and airway, 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
Risk adjustment
Y36.460 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 Y36.460
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y36.460AWar operations involving intentional restriction of air and airway, military personnel, initial encounter
- Y36.460DWar operations involving intentional restriction of air and airway, military personnel, subsequent encounter
- Y36.460SWar operations involving intentional restriction of air and airway, military personnel, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y36.46. If Y36.460 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Y36.460
- Is Y36.460 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y36.460 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y36.460 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).