Y37.23: Military operations involving explosion of improvised explosive device [IED]
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]
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Y37.23
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on Y37.2: Military operations involving other explosions and fragments
Written on Y37: Military operations
- military aircraft involved in aircraft accident with civilian aircraft (V97.81-)
- military vehicles involved in transport accident with civilian vehicle (V09.01, V09.21, V19.81, V29.818, V39.81, V49.81, V59.81, V69.81, V79.81)
- military watercraft involved in water transport accident with civilian watercraft (V94.81-)
- war operations (Y36.-)
Other codes that can never be billed with Y37.23
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
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 Y37.23
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under Y37.2
- 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