Y36.54
Y36.54 — War operation involving nuclear radiation effects of nuclear weapon
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36.54 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operation involving nuclear radiation effects 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 operation involving acute radiation exposure from nuclear weapon
- War operation involving exposure to immediate ionizing radiation from nuclear weapon
- War operation involving fallout exposure from nuclear weapon
- War operation involving secondary effects of nuclear weapons
Risk adjustment
Y36.54 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 Y36.54
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y36.5. If Y36.54 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
- Y36.59War operation involving other effects of nuclear weapons
Questions about Y36.54
- Is Y36.54 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y36.54 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y36.54 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).