Y65.52 — Performance of procedure (operation) on patient not scheduled for surgery
Y65.52 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for performance of procedure (operation) on patient not scheduled for surgery. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Performance of procedure (operation) intended for another patient
- Performance of procedure (operation) on wrong patient
Risk adjustment
Y65.52 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 Y65.52 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 Y65.52.
- Inappropriate operation performed›operation intended for another patient done on wrong patient
- Procedure›intended for another patient done on wrong patient
- Procedure›performed on patient not scheduled for surgery
- Procedure›performed on wrong patient
- Wrong›patient, procedure performed on
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y65.5. If Y65.52 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Y65.52
- Is Y65.52 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Y65.52 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Y65.52 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care (Y62-Y69).