Y79
Y79: Orthopedic devices associated with adverse incidents
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y79 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for orthopedic devices associated with adverse incidents. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
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 Y79
5 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y79.0Diagnostic and monitoring orthopedic devices associated with adverse incidents
- Y79.1Therapeutic (nonsurgical) and rehabilitative orthopedic devices associated with adverse incidents
- Y79.2Prosthetic and other implants, materials and accessory orthopedic devices associated with adverse incidents
- Y79.3Surgical instruments, materials and orthopedic devices (including sutures) associated with adverse incidents
- Y79.8Miscellaneous orthopedic devices associated with adverse incidents, not elsewhere classified