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Y35.049

Y35.049: Legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet, unspecified person injured

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Y35.049 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for legal intervention involving injury by rubber bullet, 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

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Discharge›firearm›legal intervention›using rubber bullet›injuring›unspecified person
  • Legal›intervention›firearm›rubber bullet›injuring›unspecified person

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead Y35.049

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under Y35.04

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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