ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y62-Y69 › Y codes › Y62
Y62
Failure of sterile precautions during surgical and medical care
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 9 more specific codes instead:
- Y62.0 Failure of sterile precautions during surgical operation
- Y62.1 Failure of sterile precautions during infusion or transfusion
- Y62.2 Failure of sterile precautions during kidney dialysis and other perfusion
- Y62.3 Failure of sterile precautions during injection or immunization
- Y62.4 Failure of sterile precautions during endoscopic examination
- Y62.5 Failure of sterile precautions during heart catheterization
- Y62.6 Failure of sterile precautions during aspiration, puncture and other catheterization
- Y62.8 Failure of sterile precautions during other surgical and medical care
- Y62.9 Failure of sterile precautions during unspecified surgical and medical care
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Failure of sterile precautions during surgical and medical care
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from the Y62-Y69 section Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care (Y62-Y69)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- surgical and medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reaction of the patient, without mention of misadventure at the time of the procedure (Y83-Y84)
Excludes2 - not included here
- breakdown or malfunctioning of medical device (during procedure) (after implantation) (ongoing use) (Y70-Y82)