Y36.5
Y36.5: War operations involving nuclear weapons
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving nuclear weapons. 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- War operations involving dirty bomb NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Y36.5
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36.5
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- W49Exposure to other inanimate mechanical forces
- Y36.2War operations involving other explosions and fragments
- Y36.3War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
- Y36.7War operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare
- Y37Military operations
- Y37.3Military operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
- 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 Y36.5
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y36.50War operations involving unspecified effect of nuclear weapon
- Y36.51War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon
- Y36.52War operations involving indirect blast effect of nuclear weapon
- Y36.53War operations involving thermal radiation effect of nuclear weapon
- Y36.54War operation involving nuclear radiation effects of nuclear weapon
- Y36.59War operation involving other effects of nuclear weapons
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
- Y36.3War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
- Y36.4War operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare
- 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