Y37.3
Header — not billableMilitary operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
The ICD-10 code for military operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances is Y37.3.
Y37.3 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).
- military operations involving fires and conflagrations aboard military aircraft (Y37.1-)
- military operations involving fires and conflagrations aboard military watercraft (Y37.0-)
- military operations involving fires and conflagrations caused indirectly by conventional weapons (Y37.2-)
- military 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.
- Military 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 Y37.3
- Y37.30Military operations involving unspecified fire, conflagration and hot substancenon-billable header
- Y37.31Military operations involving gasoline bombnon-billable header
- Y37.32Military operations involving incendiary bulletnon-billable header
- Y37.33Military operations involving flamethrowernon-billable header
- Y37.39Military operations involving other fires, conflagrations and hot substancesnon-billable header
Related codes in this category
- Y37.0Military operations involving explosion of marine weaponsnon-billable header
- Y37.1Military operations involving destruction of aircraftnon-billable header
- Y37.2Military operations involving other explosions and fragmentsnon-billable header
- Y37.4Military operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfarenon-billable header
- Y37.5Military operations involving nuclear weaponsnon-billable header
- Y37.6Military operations involving biological weaponsnon-billable header
- Y37.7Military operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfarenon-billable header
- Y37.9Other and unspecified military operationsnon-billable header
- Y37.ABlast overpressure in military operationsnon-billable header
- Y37.3Military operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substancesnon-billable header