ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y codes › Y36

Y36

Operations of war

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 11 more specific codes instead:

  • Y36.0 War operations involving explosion of marine weapons (also a header)
  • Y36.1 War operations involving destruction of aircraft (also a header)
  • Y36.2 War operations involving other explosions and fragments (also a header)
  • Y36.3 War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances (also a header)
  • Y36.4 War operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare (also a header)
  • Y36.5 War operations involving nuclear weapons (also a header)
  • Y36.6 War operations involving biological weapons (also a header)
  • Y36.7 War operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare (also a header)
  • Y36.8 War operations occurring after cessation of hostilities (also a header)
  • Y36.9 Other and unspecified war operations (also a header)
  • Y36.A Blast overpressure in war operations (also a header)

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Operations of war

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

This code

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category Y36

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • injury to military personnel occurring during peacetime military operations (Y37.-)
  • military vehicles involved in transport accidents with non-military vehicle during peacetime (V09.01, V09.21, V19.81, V29.818, V39.81, V49.81, V59.81, V69.81, V79.81)

Includes

  • injuries to military personnel and civilians caused by war, civil insurrection, and peacekeeping missions