Y36.490
Y36.490: War operations involving other forms of conventional warfare, military personnel
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36.490 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving other forms of conventional warfare, 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 Y36.490
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36.490
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 Y36.490
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y36.490AWar operations involving other forms of conventional warfare, military personnel, initial encounter
- Y36.490DWar operations involving other forms of conventional warfare, military personnel, subsequent encounter
- Y36.490SWar operations involving other forms of conventional warfare, military personnel, sequela