Y35.40
Y35.40: Legal intervention involving unspecified sharp objects
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y35.40 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for legal intervention involving unspecified 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
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 Y35.40
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y35.401Legal intervention involving unspecified sharp objects, law enforcement official injured
- Y35.402Legal intervention involving unspecified sharp objects, bystander injured
- Y35.403Legal intervention involving unspecified sharp objects, suspect injured
- Y35.409Legal intervention involving unspecified sharp objects, unspecified person injured