Y92.149
Y92.149 — Unspecified place in prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Y92.149 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unspecified place in prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Y92.149 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 Y92.149 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 Y92.149.
- Place of occurrence›residence›institutional›prison
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y92.14. If Y92.149 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Y92.140Kitchen in prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.141Dining room in prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.142Bathroom in prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.143Cell of prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.146Swimming-pool of prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.147Courtyard of prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.148Other place in prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause
Questions about Y92.149
- Is Y92.149 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Y92.149 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Y92.149 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).