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Y37.220

Y37.220: Military operations involving explosion of guided missile, military personnel

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Y37.220 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for military operations involving explosion of guided missile, 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 Y37

A
initial encounter
D
subsequent encounter
S
sequela

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Y37.220

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Y37.2: Military operations involving other explosions and fragments

  • military operations involving explosion of aircraft (Y37.1-)
  • military operations involving explosion of marine weapons (Y37.0-)
  • military operations involving explosion of nuclear weapons (Y37.5-)

Written on Y37: Military operations

Other codes that can never be billed with Y37.220

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • V91Other injury due to accident to watercraft
  • V93Other injury due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft
  • W49Exposure to other inanimate mechanical forces
  • Y36Operations of war

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 Y37.220

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under Y37.22

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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