W36.2 is the authoritative medical code for Explosion and rupture of air tank. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for explosion and rupture of air tank (ICD-10-CM W36.2), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with 2026 federal coding standards.
Billing Status: NO. This is a clinician non-billable / parent hierarchy grouping in the ICD-10-CM system.
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for W36.2 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
No. W36.2 (Explosion and rupture of air tank) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.
Yes. The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W36.
Per Excludes1 instructions, W36.2 must not be reported with: assault (X92-Y09); contact or collision with animals or persons (W50-W64); exposure to inanimate mechanical forces involving military or war operations (Y36.-, Y37.-); intentional self-harm (X71-X83).
Circumstance phrases from the official ICD-10-CM External Cause of Injuries Index that map to this code.
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