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
Y62 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.
Code to one of these instead Y62
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y62.0Failure of sterile precautions during surgical operation
- Y62.1Failure of sterile precautions during infusion or transfusion
- Y62.2Failure of sterile precautions during kidney dialysis and other perfusion
- Y62.3Failure of sterile precautions during injection or immunization
- Y62.4Failure of sterile precautions during endoscopic examination
- Y62.5Failure of sterile precautions during heart catheterization
- Y62.6Failure of sterile precautions during aspiration, puncture and other catheterization
- Y62.8Failure of sterile precautions during other surgical and medical care
- Y62.9Failure of sterile precautions during unspecified surgical and medical care
Questions about Y62
- Is Y62 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y62 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y62 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care (Y62-Y69).