ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y35-Y38 › Y35.8 Legal intervention involving other... › Y35.83

Y35.83

Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device

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 4 more specific codes instead:

  • Y35.831 Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device, law enforcement official injured (also a header)
  • Y35.832 Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device, bystander injured (also a header)
  • Y35.833 Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device, suspect injured (also a header)
  • Y35.839 Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device, 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 2020 to now.

  1. FY2020 Added to the code set Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device

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
Y35.81 Legal intervention involving manhandling Not billable
Y35.89 Legal intervention involving other specified means Not billable