ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y36.6X War operations involving biological weapons › Y36.6X1

Y36.6X1

War operations involving biological weapons, civilian

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 3 more specific codes instead:

  • Y36.6X1A War operations involving biological weapons, civilian, initial encounter
  • Y36.6X1D War operations involving biological weapons, civilian, subsequent encounter
  • Y36.6X1S War operations involving biological weapons, civilian, sequela

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

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft War operations involving biological weapons, civilian

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.

Showing 40 of 50 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Y36.6X0 War operations involving biological weapons, military personnel Not billable