Y62.4
Y62.4 — Failure of sterile precautions during endoscopic examination
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
Y62.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for failure of sterile precautions during endoscopic examination. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Y62.4 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 Y62.4 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 Y62.4.
- Misadventure during surgical or medical care›failure›sterile precautions›endoscopic examination
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y62. If Y62.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
- Y62.5Failure 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 Y62.4
- Is Y62.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Y62.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Y62.4 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care (Y62-Y69).