
AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2025 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Codes
Effects of War Theater
Subcategory T75.83, Effects of war theater, was created with new codes to identify conditions resulting from exposure to war. A war theater is defined as the entire land, sea, and air area that is or may become involved directly in war operations. These new codes will distinguish between conditions related to the Gulf War and conditions related to other war theaters. Seventh characters A, initial encounter, D, subsequent encounter, and S, sequela, are to be added to capture the episode of care. Code T75.830-, Gulf war illness, identifies a cluster of chronic multisymptomatic illnesses (medically unexplained)...
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