Y36.51
Y36.51: War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36.51 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon. 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 blast pressure of nuclear weapon
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Y36.51
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with Y36.51
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 Y36.51
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under Y36.5
- Y36.50War operations involving unspecified 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