Y37.A
Y37.A — Blast overpressure in military operations
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y37.A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for blast overpressure in military operations. 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.A 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.A
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y37. If Y37.A is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Y37.0Military operations involving explosion of marine weapons
- Y37.1Military operations involving destruction of aircraft
- Y37.2Military operations involving other explosions and fragments
- Y37.3Military operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
- Y37.4Military operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare
- Y37.5Military operations involving nuclear weapons
- Y37.6Military operations involving biological weapons
- Y37.7Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare
- Y37.9Other and unspecified military operations
Questions about Y37.A
- Is Y37.A a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y37.A is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y37.A 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).