ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y35.03 Legal intervention involving... › Y35.039

Y35.039

Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, unspecified person 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.

A category header for its whole life, FY2020 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • Y35.039A Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, unspecified person injured, initial encounter
  • Y35.039D Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, unspecified person injured, subsequent encounter
  • Y35.039S Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, unspecified person injured, sequela

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2020 to now.

  1. FY2020 Added to the code set Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, unspecified person 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.

Showing 40 of 43 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Y35.031 Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, law enforcement official injured Not billable
Y35.032 Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, bystander injured Not billable
Y35.033 Legal intervention involving injury by rifle pellet, suspect injured Not billable