ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X92-Y09 › X93 Assault by handgun discharge › X93.XXXA
Assault by handgun discharge, initial encounter
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Assault by handgun discharge, initial encounter
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from X93 Assault by handgun discharge
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to code X93
Excludes1 - never coded here
- Very pistol (X95.8)
Also known as
- Assault by discharge of gun for single hand use
- Assault by discharge of pistol
- Assault by discharge of revolver
Inherited from the X92-Y09 section Assault (X92-Y09)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- injuries due to legal intervention (Y35.-)
- injuries due to operations of war (Y36.-)
- injuries due to terrorism (Y38.-)
Includes
- homicide
- injuries inflicted by another person with intent to injure or kill, by any means
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Fight
- Murder
- Homicide
- Lynching
- Wound NEC
- Infanticide
- Manslaughter
- Assassination
- Gunshot wound
- Laceration NEC
- Shooting, shot
- Firearm discharge
- Assault > shooting
- Discharge > pistol
- Struck by > bullet
- Discharge > gun NEC
- Discharge > handgun
- Killed, killing NOS
- Wound NEC > gunshot
- Discharge > revolver
- Assault > gunshot NEC
- Shooting, shot > suicide
- Assault > wound > gunshot
- Shooting, shot > homicide
- Assault > weapon > firearm
- Discharge > gun NEC > hand
- Assault > fight > with weapon
- Struck by > missile > firearm
- Injury, injured NOS > homicide
- Struck by > flare, Very pistol
- Injury, injured NOS > purposely
- Shooting, shot > self-inflicted
- Contact > with > hot > liquid NEC
- Burn, burned, burning > Very pistol
- Object > set in motion by > firearm
- Shooting, shot > herself or himself
- Discharge > gun NEC > other specified
- Injury, injured NOS > due to, in > fight
- Discharge > gun NEC > for single hand use
- Burn, burned, burning > flare, Very pistol
Showing 40 of 51 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| X93.XXXD | Assault by handgun discharge, subsequent encounter | Valid |
| X93.XXXS | Assault by handgun discharge, sequela | Valid |