Y81
Y81: General- and plastic-surgery devices associated with adverse incidents
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for general- and plastic-surgery 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 Y81
5 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y81.0Diagnostic and monitoring general- and plastic-surgery devices associated with adverse incidents
- Y81.1Therapeutic (nonsurgical) and rehabilitative general- and plastic-surgery devices associated with adverse incidents
- Y81.2Prosthetic and other implants, materials and accessory general- and plastic-surgery devices associated with adverse incidents
- Y81.3Surgical instruments, materials and general- and plastic-surgery devices (including sutures) associated with adverse incidents
- Y81.8Miscellaneous general- and plastic-surgery devices associated with adverse incidents, not elsewhere classified