Y90
Y90 — Evidence of alcohol involvement determined by blood alcohol level
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y90 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for evidence of alcohol involvement determined by blood alcohol level. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Code first
The underlying condition must be sequenced before this code.
- any associated alcohol related disorders (F10)
Risk adjustment
Y90 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.
Code to one of these instead Y90
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y90.0Blood alcohol level of less than 20 mg/100 ml
- Y90.1Blood alcohol level of 20-39 mg/100 ml
- Y90.2Blood alcohol level of 40-59 mg/100 ml
- Y90.3Blood alcohol level of 60-79 mg/100 ml
- Y90.4Blood alcohol level of 80-99 mg/100 ml
- Y90.5Blood alcohol level of 100-119 mg/100 ml
- Y90.6Blood alcohol level of 120-199 mg/100 ml
- Y90.7Blood alcohol level of 200-239 mg/100 ml
- Y90.8Blood alcohol level of 240 mg/100 ml or more
- Y90.9Presence of alcohol in blood, level not specified
Questions about Y90
- Is Y90 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y90 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y90 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Supplementary factors related to causes of morbidity classified elsewhere (Y90-Y99).