Y38.4
Y38.4 — Terrorism involving firearms
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y38.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for terrorism involving firearms. 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Terrorism involving carbine bullet
- Terrorism involving machine gun bullet
- Terrorism involving pellets (shotgun)
- Terrorism involving pistol bullet
- Terrorism involving rifle bullet
- Terrorism involving rubber (rifle) bullet
Risk adjustment
Y38.4 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 Y38.4
1 child code. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y38. If Y38.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Y38.0Terrorism involving explosion of marine weapons
- Y38.1Terrorism involving destruction of aircraft
- Y38.2Terrorism involving other explosions and fragments
- Y38.3Terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances
- 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
Questions about Y38.4
- Is Y38.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y38.4 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y38.4 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).