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Y62

Y62: Failure of sterile precautions during surgical and medical care

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Y62 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for failure of sterile precautions during surgical and medical care. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead Y62

9 child codes. Green means billable.

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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