Is Y65.51 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. Y65.51 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does Y65.51 sit in the tabular list?

External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care (Y62-Y69).

What cannot be coded together with Y65.51?

Y65.51 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.

Y65.51

Y65.51 — Performance of wrong procedure (operation) on correct patient

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

Y65.51 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for performance of wrong procedure (operation) on correct patient. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 — never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

performance of correct procedure (operation) on wrong side or body part (Y65.53)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Wrong device implanted into correct surgical site

Risk adjustment

Y65.51 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 Y65.51 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 Y65.51.

Inappropriate operation performed›wrong operation performed on correct patient
Procedure›wrong, performed on correct patient
Wrong›device implanted into correct surgical site
Wrong›procedure on correct patient(operation)

Related codes at this level

Codes that share Y65.5. If Y65.51 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about Y65.51

Is Y65.51 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. Y65.51 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does Y65.51 sit in the tabular list?: External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care (Y62-Y69).
What cannot be coded together with Y65.51?: Y65.51 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.