ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y35.02 Legal intervention involving... › Y35.021
Legal intervention involving injury by handgun, law enforcement official injured
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:
- Y35.021A Legal intervention involving injury by handgun, law enforcement official injured, initial encounter
- Y35.021D Legal intervention involving injury by handgun, law enforcement official injured, subsequent encounter
- Y35.021S Legal intervention involving injury by handgun, law enforcement official injured, 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 Legal intervention involving injury by handgun, law enforcement official injured
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.
- Gunshot wound
- Shooting, shot
- Stab, stabbing
- Execution, legal
- Firearm discharge
- Legal > execution
- Capital punishment
- Discharge > pistol
- Struck by > bullet
- Discharge > gun NEC
- Discharge > handgun
- Wound NEC > gunshot
- Discharge > revolver
- Contact > with > bayonet
- Shooting, shot > suicide
- Shooting, shot > homicide
- Discharge > gun NEC > hand
- Beheading > legal execution
- Struck by > missile > firearm
- Legal > intervention > bayonet
- Struck by > flare, Very pistol
- Legal > intervention > stabbing
- Shooting, shot > self-inflicted
- Cut, cutting > legal > execution
- Decapitation NEC > legal execution
- Shooting, shot > legal > execution
- Burn, burned, burning > Very pistol
- Cut, cutting > legal > intervention
- Object > set in motion by > firearm
- Shooting, shot > herself or himself
- Discharge > gun NEC > other specified
- Shooting, shot > legal > intervention
- Bayonet wound > in > legal intervention
- Discharge > gun NEC > for single hand use
- Burn, burned, burning > flare, Very pistol
- Shooting, shot > inflicted by other person
- Shooting, shot > self-inflicted > accidental
- Accident > caused by, due to > firearm missile
- Discharge > firearm > larger > legal intervention
- Discharge > firearm > handgun > legal intervention
Showing 40 of 45 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Y35.022 | Legal intervention involving injury by handgun, bystander injured | Not billable |
| Y35.023 | Legal intervention involving injury by handgun, suspect injured | Not billable |
| Y35.029 | Legal intervention involving injury by handgun, unspecified person injured | Not billable |