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ICD-10-CM Codes
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V00-Y99
External causes of morbidity
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Y35-Y38
Legal intervention, operations of war, military operations, and terrorism
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Y38-
Terrorism
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2021 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Y38.3
2021 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Y38.3
Terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
- Y38.3 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.
- The 2021 edition of ICD-10-CM Y38.3 became effective on October 1, 2020.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of Y38.3 - other international versions of ICD-10 Y38.3 may differ.
ICD-10-CM Coding Rules
- Y38.3 describes the circumstance causing an injury, not the nature of the injury.
Applicable To- Terrorism involving conflagration NOS
- Terrorism involving fire NOS
- Terrorism involving petrol bomb
Type 1 ExcludesType 1 Excludes Help
A type 1 excludes note is a pure excludes. It means "not coded here". A type 1 excludes note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as Y38.3. A type 1 excludes note is for used for when two conditions cannot occur together, such as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition.
The following code(s) above
Y38.3 contain annotation back-references
Annotation Back-References
In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:
- Applicable To annotations, or
- Code Also annotations, or
- Code First annotations, or
- Excludes1 annotations, or
- Excludes2 annotations, or
- Includes annotations, or
- Note annotations, or
- Use Additional annotations
that may be applicable to
Y38.3:
Code History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
- 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
- 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
- 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
- 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To Y38.3
Y38.2X2 Terrorism involving other explosions and fragments, civilian injured
Y38.2X3 Terrorism involving other explosions and fragments, terrorist injured
Y38.3
Terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances
Y38.3X Terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances
Y38.3X1 Terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances, public safety official injured
Y38.3X2 Terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances, civilian injured
Y38.3X3 Terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances, terrorist injured
Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.