Y92.23
Y92.23 — Hospital as the place of occurrence of the external cause
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y92.23 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for hospital as the place of occurrence of the external cause. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Risk adjustment
Y92.23 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 Y92.23
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- Y92.230Patient room in hospital as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.231Patient bathroom in hospital as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.232Corridor of hospital as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.233Cafeteria of hospital as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.234Operating room of hospital as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.238Other place in hospital as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.239Unspecified place in hospital as the place of occurrence of the external cause
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y92.2. If Y92.23 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Y92.21School (private) (public) (state) as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.22Religious institution as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.24Public administrative building as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.25Cultural building as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.26Movie house or cinema as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Y92.29Other specified public building as the place of occurrence of the external cause
Questions about Y92.23
- Is Y92.23 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y92.23 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y92.23 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).
- What cannot be coded together with Y92.23?
- Y92.23 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.