ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y35.3 Legal intervention involving blunt objects › Y35.31

Y35.31

Legal intervention involving baton

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:

  • Y35.311 Legal intervention involving baton, law enforcement official injured (also a header)
  • Y35.312 Legal intervention involving baton, bystander injured (also a header)
  • Y35.313 Legal intervention involving baton, suspect injured (also a header)
  • Y35.319 Legal intervention involving baton, 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 baton

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
Y35.30 Legal intervention involving unspecified blunt objects Not billable
Y35.39 Legal intervention involving other blunt objects Not billable