ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y35 Legal intervention › Y35.0
Legal intervention involving firearm discharge
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 6 more specific codes instead:
- Y35.00 Legal intervention involving unspecified firearm discharge (also a header)
- Y35.01 Legal intervention involving injury by machine gun (also a header)
- Y35.02 Legal intervention involving injury by handgun (also a header)
- Y35.03 Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet (also a header)
- Y35.04 Legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet (also a header)
- Y35.09 Legal intervention involving other firearm discharge (also a header)
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Legal intervention involving firearm discharge
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 Y35 Legal intervention
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category Y35
Includes
- any injury sustained as a result of an encounter with any law enforcement official, serving in any capacity at the time of the encounter, whether on-duty or off-duty. Includes: injury to law enforcement official, suspect and bystander
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.
- Electrocution
- Electric shock
- Shock > electric
- Exposure > electric current > stun gun
- Exposure > electric current > electroshock gun
- Accident > caused by, due to > electric > current
- Exposure > electric current > taser > legal intervention
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Y35.1 | Legal intervention involving explosives | Not billable |
| Y35.2 | Legal intervention involving gas | Not billable |
| Y35.3 | Legal intervention involving blunt objects | Not billable |
| Y35.4 | Legal intervention involving sharp objects | Not billable |
| Y35.8 | Legal intervention involving other specified means | Not billable |
| Y35.9 | Legal intervention, means unspecified | Not billable |