Y36.540
Y36.540 — War operation involving nuclear radiation effects of nuclear weapon, military personnel
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36.540 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operation involving nuclear radiation effects of nuclear weapon, 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
Y36.540 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 Y36.540
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y36.540AWar operation involving nuclear radiation effects of nuclear weapon, military personnel, initial encounter
- Y36.540DWar operation involving nuclear radiation effects of nuclear weapon, military personnel, subsequent encounter
- Y36.540SWar operation involving nuclear radiation effects of nuclear weapon, military personnel, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y36.54. If Y36.540 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Y36.540
- Is Y36.540 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y36.540 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y36.540 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).