Terrorism involving biological weapons, public safety official 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, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

Y38.6X1A Terrorism involving biological weapons, public safety official injured, initial encounter
Y38.6X1D Terrorism involving biological weapons, public safety official injured, subsequent encounter
Y38.6X1S Terrorism involving biological weapons, public safety official injured, sequela

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

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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.

FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Terrorism involving biological weapons, public safety official 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 Y38 Terrorism

Seventh character required

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category Y38

Use additional code

code for place of occurrence (Y92.-)

Also known as

These codes are for use to identify injuries resulting from the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objective

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.

Terrorism > biological weapons

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
Y38.6X2	Terrorism involving biological weapons, civilian injured	Not billable
Y38.6X3	Terrorism involving biological weapons, terrorist injured	Not billable