Y35.83
Y35.83: Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y35.83 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for legal intervention involving a conducted energy device. 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.
- Electroshock device (taser)
- Stun gun
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 Y35.83
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y35.831Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device, law enforcement official injured
- Y35.832Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device, bystander injured
- Y35.833Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device, suspect injured
- Y35.839Legal intervention involving a conducted energy device, unspecified person injured