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Y99.0

Y99.0: Civilian activity done for income or pay

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Y99.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for civilian activity done for income or pay. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Y99.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

  • military activity (Y99.1)
  • volunteer activity (Y99.2)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

  • Civilian activity done for financial or other compensation

Other codes that can never be billed with Y99.0

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • Y99.8Other external cause status

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Work related condition
  • External cause status›civilian activity done for financial or other compensation
  • External cause status›civilian activity done for income or pay
  • Factors, supplemental›work-related condition
  • Status of external cause›civilian activity done for financial or other compensation
  • Status of external cause›civilian activity done for income or pay

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Y99

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

Loaded directly from the CMS/NCHS ICD-10-CM public-domain release: see data sources and our editorial policy. If this page disagrees with the CMS tabular list, this page is wrong. Reference information for professional coders; not medical or billing advice.