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Y37.7X1

Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare, 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:

  • Y37.7X1A Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare, civilian, initial encounter
  • Y37.7X1D Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare, civilian, subsequent encounter
  • Y37.7X1S Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare, 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 Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare, 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 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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Y37.7X0 Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare, military personnel Not billable