ICD-9 Code E975
Injury due to legal intervention by other specified means
Not Valid for Submission
E975 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of injury due to legal intervention by other specified means. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.
| ICD-9: | E975 |
| Short Description: | Legal intervention NEC |
| Long Description: | Injury due to legal intervention by other specified means |
Convert E975 to ICD-10
The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:
- Y35.893A - Legal intervnt involving oth means, suspect injured, init
Code Classification
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External causes of injury (V)
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Legal intervention (E970-E979)
- E975 Injury due to legal intervention by other specified means
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Legal intervention (E970-E979)
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.