ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y36.3 War operations involving fires,... › Y36.30
War operations involving unspecified fire, conflagration and hot substance
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:
- Y36.300 War operations involving unspecified fire, conflagration and hot substance, military personnel (also a header)
- Y36.301 War operations involving unspecified fire, conflagration and hot substance, civilian (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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft War operations involving unspecified fire, conflagration and hot substance
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.
Inherited from Y36 Operations of war
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
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Immersion
- Wound NEC
- Overheated
- Submersion
- Late effect
- Laceration NEC
- Ictus > caloris
- Effect of > heat
- Effect of > late
- Exhaustion > heat
- After-effect, late
- Casualty NEC > war
- Civil insurrection
- Wound NEC > battle
- Exposure > heat NEC
- Killed, killing NOS
- Overexposure > heat
- Exposure > radiation
- Hot > place, effects
- Effect of > hot place
- Effect of > radiation
- Overexposure > radiation
- Sequelae > war operations
- High > temperature, effects
- War operations > suffocation
- Poisoning > in war operations
- War operations > asphyxiation
- Drowning > in > war operations
- War operations > conflagration
- Radiation > in > war operations
- War operations > hot substances
- Contact > with > hot > liquid NEC
- Killed, killing NOS > in > action
- Shooting, shot > in war operations
- Accident > caused by, due to > heat
- War operations > airway restriction
- Radiation > laser > in war operations
- High > level of radioactivity, effects
- Struck by > bullet > in war operations
- Struck by > missile > in war operations
Showing 40 of 55 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Y36.31 | War operations involving gasoline bomb | Not billable |
| Y36.32 | War operations involving incendiary bullet | Not billable |
| Y36.33 | War operations involving flamethrower | Not billable |
| Y36.39 | War operations involving other fires, conflagrations and hot substances | Not billable |