Y37.500
Y37.500 — Military operations involving unspecified effect of nuclear weapon, military personnel
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y37.500 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for military operations involving unspecified effect of nuclear weapon, 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
Risk adjustment
Y37.500 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 Y37.500
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y37.500AMilitary operations involving unspecified effect of nuclear weapon, military personnel, initial encounter
- Y37.500DMilitary operations involving unspecified effect of nuclear weapon, military personnel, subsequent encounter
- Y37.500SMilitary operations involving unspecified effect of nuclear weapon, military personnel, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y37.50. If Y37.500 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Y37.500
- Is Y37.500 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y37.500 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y37.500 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).