Y37 Non-Billable Code
Military operations
Chapter Classification
Chapter 20
External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99)
Section Detail
Y35-Y38
Legal intervention, operations of war, military operations, and terrorism (Y35-Y38)
Coding Guidelines & Notes
includes
- injuries to military personnel and civilians occurring during peacetime on military property and during routine military exercises and operations
excludes1
- military aircraft involved in aircraft accident with civilian aircraft (V97.81-)
- military vehicles involved in transport accident with civilian vehicle (V09.01, V09.21, V19.81, V29.818, V39.81, V49.81, V59.81, V69.81, V79.81)
- military watercraft involved in water transport accident with civilian watercraft (V94.81-)
- war operations (Y36.-)
sevenChrDef
- {'char': 'A', 'text': 'initial encounter'}
- {'char': 'D', 'text': 'subsequent encounter'}
- {'char': 'S', 'text': 'sequela'}
sevenChrNote
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category Y37
More Specific Diagnosis Codes
This code is not billable as it requires a higher level of specificity. Select a more specific code below.
- Y37.0 - Military operations involving explosion of marine weapons
- Y37.1 - Military operations involving destruction of aircraft
- Y37.2 - Military operations involving other explosions and fragments
- Y37.3 - Military operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
- Y37.4 - Military operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare
- Y37.5 - Military operations involving nuclear weapons
- Y37.6 - Military operations involving biological weapons
- Y37.7 - Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare
- Y37.9 - Other and unspecified military operations
- Y37.A - Blast overpressure in military operations
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