Y37.2 — Military operations involving other explosions and fragments
Y37.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for military operations involving other explosions and fragments. 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 Y37
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Other codes that can never be billed with Y37.2
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Y37.2. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Y37.2 alone.
Risk adjustment
Y37.2 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 Y37.2
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y37.20Military operations involving unspecified explosion and fragments
- Y37.21Military operations involving explosion of aerial bomb
- Y37.22Military operations involving explosion of guided missile
- Y37.23Military operations involving explosion of improvised explosive device [IED]
- Y37.24Military operations involving explosion due to accidental detonation and discharge of own munitions or munitions launch device
- Y37.25Military operations involving fragments from munitions
- Y37.26Military operations involving fragments of improvised explosive device [IED]
- Y37.27Military operations involving fragments from weapons
- Y37.29Military operations involving other explosions and fragments
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y37. If Y37.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Y37.0Military operations involving explosion of marine weapons
- Y37.1Military operations involving destruction of aircraft
- Y37.3Military operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
- Y37.4Military operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare
- Y37.5Military operations involving nuclear weapons
- Y37.6Military operations involving biological weapons
- Y37.7Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare
- Y37.9Other and unspecified military operations
- Y37.ABlast overpressure in military operations
Questions about Y37.2
- Is Y37.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y37.2 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y37.2 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).
- What cannot be coded together with Y37.2?
- Y37.2 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.