Y36.3

Non-Billable
ChapterV00–Y99
Ranksubcategory
Official Description

War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances

Metadata & Insights
  • Non-billable category (requires more specific sub-code).
  • Chapter 20: External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99).

Instructional Notes

Includes
  • War operations involving smoke, fumes, and heat from fires, conflagrations and hot substances
Excludes1(Not coded here. Use a different code.)
  • 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-)
General instructions are available for the parent sections:

Clinical Hierarchy

BillableHas subcodes
CH20External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99)
Y35-Y38Legal intervention, operations of war, military operations, and terrorism (Y35-Y38)
Y36Operations of war
Y36.3War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substancesNot billable
Y36.30War operations involving unspecified fire, conflagration and hot substanceSubcodes
Y36.31War operations involving gasoline bombSubcodes
Y36.32War operations involving incendiary bulletSubcodes
Y36.33War operations involving flamethrowerSubcodes
Y36.39War operations involving other fires, conflagrations and hot substancesSubcodes

Applicable Ancestor Context

The following parent sections contain instructions or notes that apply to Y36.3:

categoryY36
Operations of war
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MS-DRG Classification

2026

No direct MS-DRG triggers identified.

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