Y35.029 — Legal intervention involving injury by handgun, unspecified person injured
Y35.029 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for legal intervention involving injury by handgun, unspecified person injured. 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
Risk adjustment
Y35.029 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How Y35.029 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to Y35.029.
- Legal›intervention›firearm›handgun›injuring›unspecified person
Code to one of these instead Y35.029
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y35.02. If Y35.029 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Y35.029
- Is Y35.029 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y35.029 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y35.029 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Legal intervention, operations of war, military operations, and terrorism (Y35-Y38).