ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y codes › Y37
Y37
Military operations
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 10 more specific codes instead:
- Y37.0 Military operations involving explosion of marine weapons (also a header)
- Y37.1 Military operations involving destruction of aircraft (also a header)
- Y37.2 Military operations involving other explosions and fragments (also a header)
- Y37.3 Military operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances (also a header)
- Y37.4 Military operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare (also a header)
- Y37.5 Military operations involving nuclear weapons (also a header)
- Y37.6 Military operations involving biological weapons (also a header)
- Y37.7 Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare (also a header)
- Y37.9 Other and unspecified military operations (also a header)
- Y37.A Blast overpressure in military 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Military operations
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 Y37
Excludes1 - never coded here
- 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.-)
Includes
- injuries to military personnel and civilians occurring during peacetime on military property and during routine military exercises and operations