Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care
Y62-Y69
This section covers 38 ICD-10-CM codes (Y62-Y69) for misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care, including failure of sterile precautions during surgical and medical care, failure in dosage during surgical and medical care, and contaminated medical or biological substances. 33 of these are billable codes usable on a claim; the rest are non-billable header categories that require a more specific child code.
Categories in Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care
- Y62Failure of sterile precautions during surgical and medical carenon-billable header
- Y63Failure in dosage during surgical and medical carenon-billable header
- Y64Contaminated medical or biological substancesnon-billable header
- Y65Other misadventures during surgical and medical carenon-billable header
- Y66Nonadministration of surgical and medical care
- Y69Unspecified misadventure during surgical and medical care