ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code E970

Injury due to legal intervention by firearms

Not Valid for Submission

E970 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of injury due to legal intervention by firearms. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.

ICD-9-CM Code:: E970
ICD-9 Code for:: Legal intervent-firearm

Convert E970 to ICD-10-CM

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

Y35.003A - Legal intervnt w unsp firearm disch, suspect injured, init (approximate) 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.

Code Classification

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

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.