Y37.25 — Military operations involving fragments from munitions
Y37.25 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for military operations involving fragments from munitions. 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
Other codes that can never be billed with Y37.25
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Y37.25. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Y37.25 alone.
- Y37.43Military operations involving other firearms discharge
Risk adjustment
Y37.25 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 Y37.25
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y37.2. If Y37.25 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
- Y37.23Military 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
- Y37.26Military 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 Y37.25
- Is Y37.25 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y37.25 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y37.25 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).