ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X92-Y09 › X96 Assault by explosive material › X96.2
Assault by letter bomb
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- X96.2XXA Assault by letter bomb, initial encounter
- X96.2XXD Assault by letter bomb, subsequent encounter
- X96.2XXS Assault by letter bomb, sequela
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Assault by letter bomb
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 X96 Assault by explosive material
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X96
Excludes1 - never coded here
- incendiary device (X97)
- terrorism involving explosive material (Y38.2-)
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
- Laceration NEC
- Killed, killing NOS
- Combustion, spontaneous
- Assault > fight > with weapon
- Injury, injured NOS > homicide
- Injury, injured NOS > purposely
- Burn, burned, burning > ignition
- Explosion > homicide > letter bomb
- Suffocation > due to, by > ignition
- Accident > caused by, due to > ignition
- Asphyxia, asphyxiation > from > ignition
- Injury, injured NOS > due to, in > fight
- Poisoning > fumes or smoke due to > ignition
- Injury, injured NOS > by, caused by, from > assault
- Killed, killing NOS > in > brawl, fight > by weapon
- Injury, injured NOS > inflicted > other person > stated as > intentional, homicide
- Assault > bomb > letter
- Explosion > letter bomb > assault
- Explosion > letter bomb > homicide
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| X96.0 | Assault by antipersonnel bomb | Not billable |
| X96.1 | Assault by gasoline bomb | Not billable |
| X96.3 | Assault by fertilizer bomb | Not billable |
| X96.4 | Assault by pipe bomb | Not billable |
| X96.8 | Assault by other specified explosive | Not billable |
| X96.9 | Assault by unspecified explosive | Not billable |