Y78.3
Y78.3 — Surgical instruments, materials and radiological devices (including sutures) associated with adverse incidents
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
Y78.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for surgical instruments, materials and radiological devices (including sutures) associated with adverse incidents. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Y78.3 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 Y78.3 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 Y78.3.
- Incident, adverse›device›radiological›surgical
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y78. If Y78.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Y78.0Diagnostic and monitoring radiological devices associated with adverse incidents
- Y78.1Therapeutic (nonsurgical) and rehabilitative radiological devices associated with adverse incidents
- Y78.2Prosthetic and other implants, materials and accessory radiological devices associated with adverse incidents
- Y78.8Miscellaneous radiological devices associated with adverse incidents, not elsewhere classified
Questions about Y78.3
- Is Y78.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Y78.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Y78.3 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Medical devices associated with adverse incidents in diagnostic and therapeutic use (Y70-Y82).