Y37.44
Y37.44: Military operations involving unarmed hand to hand combat
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y37.44 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for military operations involving unarmed hand to hand combat. 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.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Y37.44
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
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 Y37.44
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 Y37.44
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under Y37.4
- Y37.41Military operations involving rubber bullets
- Y37.42Military operations involving firearms pellets
- Y37.43Military operations involving other firearms discharge
- Y37.45Military operations involving combat using blunt or piercing object
- Y37.46Military operations involving intentional restriction of air and airway
- Y37.47Military operations involving unintentional restriction of air and airway
- Y37.49Military operations involving other forms of conventional warfare