Y35.309
Legal intervention involving unspecified blunt objects, unspecified person injured
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
This is the unspecified option. 3 more
specific codes sit alongside it. Worth
checking whether the documentation supports one of them.
7th character 3
A initial encounter
D subsequent encounter
S sequela
Instructional notes 3
Y35code
Includes
- any injury sustained as a result of an encounter with any law enforcement official, serving in any capacity at the time of the encounter, whether on-duty or off-duty. Includes: injury to law enforcement official, suspect and bystander
Y35.3code
Inclusion terms
- Legal intervention involving being hit or struck by blunt object
V00-Y99chapter
Notes
- This chapter permits the classification of environmental events and circumstances as the cause of injury, and other adverse effects. Where a code from this section is applicable, it is intended that it shall be used secondary to a code from another chapter of the Classification indicating the nature of the condition. Most often, the condition will be classifiable to Chapter 19, Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88). Other conditions that may be stated to be due to external causes are classified in Chapters I to XVIII. For these conditions, codes from Chapter 20 should be used to provide additional information as to the cause of the condition.S00-T88
Index entries leading here 1
- Legal
- intervention (by)
- blunt object
- injuring
- unspecified person Y35.309
- injuring
- blunt object
- intervention (by)
Alongside this code 3 same parent — Y35.30
Subordinate codes 3
Additional references
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