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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.

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

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.

  1. 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