Y38.2Terrorism involving other explosions and fragments

Y38.2 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for terrorism involving other explosions and fragments. It belongs to category Y38 (terrorism), block Y35-Y38 (legal intervention, operations of war, military operations, and terrorism) and chapter 20 (external causes of morbidity). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 1 subcodes must be used instead.

Within Y38, choose Y38.2 (involving other explosions and fragments) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: involving explosion of marine weapons (Y38.0), involving destruction of aircraft (Y38.1), involving fires, conflagration and hot substances (Y38.3), involving firearms (Y38.4), involving nuclear weapons (Y38.5), involving biological weapons (Y38.6), involving chemical weapons (Y38.7), involving other and unspecified means (Y38.8) and 1 more.

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

Don't report Y38.2 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: terrorism involving explosion of nuclear weapon (Y38.5) and terrorism involving suicide bomber (Y38.81).

Use an additional code for place of occurrence (Y92.-).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.