Y36.9
Y36.9 — Other and unspecified war operations
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other and unspecified war operations. 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
Y36.9 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 Y36.9
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y36. If Y36.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
- Y36.5War operations involving nuclear weapons
- 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.ABlast overpressure in war operations
Questions about Y36.9
- Is Y36.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y36.9 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y36.9 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).