Y65
Y65: Other misadventures during surgical and medical care
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y65 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other misadventures during surgical and medical care. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with Y65
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- Y65.51Performance of wrong procedure (operation) on correct patient
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 Y65
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y65.0Mismatched blood in transfusion
- Y65.1Wrong fluid used in infusion
- Y65.2Failure in suture or ligature during surgical operation
- Y65.3Endotracheal tube wrongly placed during anesthetic procedure
- Y65.4Failure to introduce or to remove other tube or instrument
- Y65.5Performance of wrong procedure (operation)
- Y65.8Other specified misadventures during surgical and medical care