Y65.4
Y65.4 — Failure to introduce or to remove other tube or instrument
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
Y65.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for failure to introduce or to remove other tube or instrument. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Y65.4 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 Y65.4 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 Y65.4.
- Failure›to›introduce tube or instrument
- Failure›to›remove tube or instrument
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y65. If Y65.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
- Y65.5Performance of wrong procedure (operation)
- Y65.8Other specified misadventures during surgical and medical care
Questions about Y65.4
- Is Y65.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Y65.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Y65.4 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care (Y62-Y69).