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Y35.03

Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:

  • Y35.031 Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, law enforcement official injured (also a header)
  • Y35.032 Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, bystander injured (also a header)
  • Y35.033 Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, suspect injured (also a header)
  • Y35.039 Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, unspecified person injured (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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Y35.00 Legal intervention involving unspecified firearm discharge Not billable
Y35.01 Legal intervention involving injury by machine gun Not billable
Y35.02 Legal intervention involving injury by handgun Not billable
Y35.04 Legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet Not billable
Y35.09 Legal intervention involving other firearm discharge Not billable