Y38.9
Y38.9: Terrorism, secondary effects
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y38.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for terrorism, secondary effects. 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
Notes
Additional guidance from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.
- This code is for use to identify conditions occurring subsequent to a terrorist attack not those that are due to the initial terrorist attack
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 Y38.9
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
- Y38.3Terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances
- 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