ICD-10-CM Code Y36.43
War operations involving other firearms discharge
NON-BILLABLE
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ICD-10 from 2011 - 2016
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.ICD Code Y36.43 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the two child codes of Y36.43 that describes the diagnosis 'war operations involving other firearms discharge' in more detail.
Coding Notes for Y36.43 Info for medical coders on how to properly use this ICD-10 code
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Inclusion Terms:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion Terms are a list of concepts for which a specific code is used. The list of Inclusion Terms is useful for determining the correct code in some cases, but the list is not necessarily exhaustive. - War operations involving bullets NOS
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Code Type-1 Excludes:
Type-1 Excludes
Type-1 Excludes mean the conditions excluded are mutually exclusive and should never be coded together. Excludes 1 means "do not code here." - War operations involving munitions fragments - instead, use code Y36.25-
- War operations involving incendiary bullets - instead, use code Y36.32-
ICD-10-CM External Cause Index References for 'Y36.43 - War operations involving other firearms discharge'
The ICD-10-CM External Cause Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code Y36.43. Click on any term below to browse the external cause index.
Parent Code: Y36.4 - War operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare