Y35.4
Y35.4 — Legal intervention involving sharp objects
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y35.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for legal intervention involving sharp objects. 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 being cut by sharp objects
- Legal intervention involving being stabbed by sharp objects
Risk adjustment
Y35.4 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.
Code to one of these instead Y35.4
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y35. If Y35.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Y35.4
- Is Y35.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y35.4 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y35.4 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).