Y35.00
Y35.00: Legal intervention involving unspecified firearm discharge
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y35.00 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for legal intervention involving unspecified firearm discharge. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category Y35
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Legal intervention involving gunshot wound
- Legal intervention involving shot NOS
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead Y35.00
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y35.001Legal intervention involving unspecified firearm discharge, law enforcement official injured
- Y35.002Legal intervention involving unspecified firearm discharge, bystander injured
- Y35.003Legal intervention involving unspecified firearm discharge, suspect injured
- Y35.009Legal intervention involving unspecified firearm discharge, unspecified person injured