Y37.23
Y37.23 — Military operations involving explosion of improvised explosive device [IED]
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y37.23 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for military operations involving explosion of improvised explosive device [ied]. 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Military operations involving explosion of person-borne improvised explosive device [IED]
- Military operations involving explosion of vehicle-borne improvised explosive device [IED]
- Military operations involving explosion of roadside improvised explosive device [IED]
Risk adjustment
Y37.23 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 Y37.23
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y37.2. If Y37.23 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Y37.20Military operations involving unspecified explosion and fragments
- Y37.21Military operations involving explosion of aerial bomb
- Y37.22Military operations involving explosion of guided missile
- Y37.24Military 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
Questions about Y37.23
- Is Y37.23 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y37.23 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y37.23 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).