ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y37.2 Military operations involving... › Y37.24
Military operations involving explosion due to accidental detonation and discharge of own munitions or munitions launch device
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:
- Y37.240 Military operations involving explosion due to accidental detonation and discharge of own munitions or munitions launch device, military personnel (also a header)
- Y37.241 Military operations involving explosion due to accidental detonation and discharge of own munitions or munitions launch device, 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 Military operations involving explosion due to accidental detonation and discharge of own munitions or munitions launch device
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 Y37 Military operations
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
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.
- Military operations > suffocation
- Military operations > asphyxiation
- Military operations > airway restriction
- Military operations > explosion > own munitions or munitions launch device
- Military operations > detonation of > own munitions or munitions launch device
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Y37.20 | Military operations involving unspecified explosion and fragments | Not billable |
| Y37.21 | Military operations involving explosion of aerial bomb | Not billable |
| Y37.22 | Military operations involving explosion of guided missile | Not billable |
| Y37.23 | Military operations involving explosion of improvised explosive device [IED] | Not billable |
| Y37.25 | Military operations involving fragments from munitions | Not billable |
| Y37.26 | Military operations involving fragments of improvised explosive device [IED] | Not billable |
| Y37.27 | Military operations involving fragments from weapons | Not billable |
| Y37.29 | Military operations involving other explosions and fragments | Not billable |