Y07.420
Y07.420 — Foster father, perpetrator of maltreatment and neglect
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Y07.420 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for foster father, perpetrator of maltreatment and neglect. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Y07.420 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How Y07.420 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to Y07.420.
- Perpetrator, perpetration, of assault, maltreatment and neglect›foster father
- Perpetrator, perpetration, of assault, maltreatment and neglect›father›foster
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y07.42. If Y07.420 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Y07.420
- Is Y07.420 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Y07.420 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Y07.420 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Assault (X92-Y09).