ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y62-Y69 › Y codes › Y63
Y63
Failure in dosage 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:
- Y63.0 Excessive amount of blood or other fluid given during transfusion or infusion
- Y63.1 Incorrect dilution of fluid used during infusion
- Y63.2 Overdose of radiation given during therapy
- Y63.3 Inadvertent exposure of patient to radiation during medical care
- Y63.4 Failure in dosage in electroshock or insulin-shock therapy
- Y63.5 Inappropriate temperature in local application and packing
- Y63.6 Underdosing and nonadministration of necessary drug, medicament or biological substance
- Y63.8 Failure in dosage during other surgical and medical care
- Y63.9 Failure in dosage 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 in dosage 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.
This code
Excludes2 - not included here
- accidental overdose of drug or wrong drug given in error (T36-T50)
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)