Y63
Y63 — Failure in dosage during surgical and medical care
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y63 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for failure in dosage during surgical and medical care. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
Y63 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 Y63
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y63.0Excessive amount of blood or other fluid given during transfusion or infusion
- Y63.1Incorrect dilution of fluid used during infusion
- Y63.2Overdose of radiation given during therapy
- Y63.3Inadvertent exposure of patient to radiation during medical care
- Y63.4Failure in dosage in electroshock or insulin-shock therapy
- Y63.5Inappropriate temperature in local application and packing
- Y63.6Underdosing and nonadministration of necessary drug, medicament or biological substance
- Y63.8Failure in dosage during other surgical and medical care
- Y63.9Failure in dosage during unspecified surgical and medical care
Questions about Y63
- Is Y63 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y63 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y63 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care (Y62-Y69).