Y38.3
Y38.3: Terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y38.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances. 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 Y38
- 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.
- terrorism involving fire or heat of nuclear weapon (Y38.5)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Terrorism involving conflagration NOS
- Terrorism involving fire NOS
- Terrorism involving petrol bomb
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 Y38.3
1 child code. Green means billable.
Other codes under Y38
- Y38.0Terrorism involving explosion of marine weapons
- Y38.1Terrorism involving destruction of aircraft
- Y38.2Terrorism involving other explosions and fragments
- Y38.4Terrorism involving firearms
- Y38.5Terrorism involving nuclear weapons
- Y38.6Terrorism involving biological weapons
- Y38.7Terrorism involving chemical weapons
- Y38.8Terrorism involving other and unspecified means
- Y38.9Terrorism, secondary effects