ICD-9 Code E972

Injury due to legal intervention by gas

Not Valid for Submission

E972 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of injury due to legal intervention by gas. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.

ICD-9: E972
Short Description:Legal intervent-gas
Long Description:Injury due to legal intervention by gas

Convert E972 to ICD-10

The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:

  • Y35.203A - Legal intervention involving unsp gas, suspect injured, init

Code Classification

  • External causes of injury (V)
    • Legal intervention (E970-E979)
      • E972 Injury due to legal intervention by gas

Information for Medical Professionals

ICD-9 Footnotes

General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.

  • Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
  • No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
  • Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.