AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2019 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Codes

External Cause of Injury Codes for Legal Intervention

Several changes were made to category Y35, Legal intervention, to improve the tracking of injuries related to legal interventions. The codes will provide the necessary specificity to track for public information, law enforcement, morbidity and mortality data collection and reporting purposes. Improving public health monitoring of law-enforcement-related morbidity and mortality is a critical part of efforts to ensure public accountability for these incidents. Unspecified person injured. New codes have been created at the subcategories below to identify “unspecified person injured.” Current codes in these subcategories already provided options including law enforcement officer injured, bystander injured, or suspect...

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