ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y35.04 Legal intervention involving... › Y35.049

Y35.049

Legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet, 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:

  • Y35.049A Legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet, unspecified person injured, initial encounter
  • Y35.049D Legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet, unspecified person injured, subsequent encounter
  • Y35.049S Legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet, 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 rubber bullet, 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 41 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Y35.041 Legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet, law enforcement official injured Not billable
Y35.042 Legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet, bystander injured Not billable
Y35.043 Legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet, suspect injured Not billable