Y36.3
Header — not billableWar operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
The ICD-10 code for war operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances is Y36.3.
Y36.3 is a non-billable header code. It groups related conditions but cannot be used on its own for reimbursement — select one of the 5 more specific codes below.
Clinical notes
Excludes1 (not coded here)
An Excludes1 note is a pure exclusion: the excluded condition and this code should never be reported together, because the two conditions cannot occur at the same time (e.g. a congenital form vs. an acquired form of the same disease).
- war operations involving fires and conflagrations aboard military aircraft (Y36.1-)
- war operations involving fires and conflagrations aboard military watercraft (Y36.0-)
- war operations involving fires and conflagrations caused indirectly by conventional weapons (Y36.2-)
- war operations involving fires and thermal effects of nuclear weapons (Y36.53-)
Also known as
Alternate wording, synonyms, or specific conditions that fall under this code, listed to help confirm you've picked the right one.
- War operations involving smoke, fumes, and heat from fires, conflagrations and hot substances
Documentation support
General coding-documentation guidance — not a substitute for payer-specific requirements or professional coding judgment.
- •This is a non-billable header code. Documentation must support a more specific child code before this diagnosis can be reported on a claim.
- •Confirm the excluded condition(s) listed above are not also present — Excludes1 conditions cannot be coded together with this one.
- •As a general rule, code to the highest level of specificity supported by the documentation in the medical record.
Child codes under Y36.3
- Y36.30War operations involving unspecified fire, conflagration and hot substancenon-billable header
- Y36.31War operations involving gasoline bombnon-billable header
- Y36.32War operations involving incendiary bulletnon-billable header
- Y36.33War operations involving flamethrowernon-billable header
- Y36.39War operations involving other fires, conflagrations and hot substancesnon-billable header
Related codes in this category
- Y36.0War operations involving explosion of marine weaponsnon-billable header
- Y36.1War operations involving destruction of aircraftnon-billable header
- Y36.2War operations involving other explosions and fragmentsnon-billable header
- Y36.4War operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfarenon-billable header
- Y36.5War operations involving nuclear weaponsnon-billable header
- Y36.6War operations involving biological weaponsnon-billable header
- Y36.7War operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfarenon-billable header
- Y36.8War operations occurring after cessation of hostilitiesnon-billable header
- Y36.9Other and unspecified war operationsnon-billable header
- Y36.ABlast overpressure in war operationsnon-billable header
- Y36.3War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substancesnon-billable header