ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y62-Y69 › Y63 Failure in dosage during surgical... › Y63.3
Inadvertent exposure of patient to radiation during medical care
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Inadvertent exposure of patient to radiation during 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 Y63 Failure in dosage during surgical and medical care
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)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Exposure > radiation
- Effect of > radiation
- Overexposure > radiation
- High > level of radioactivity, effects
- Accident > caused by, due to > radiation
- Radiation > inadvertent exposure of patient
- Misadventure during surgical or medical care > inadvertent exposure of patient to radiation
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Y63.0 | Excessive amount of blood or other fluid given during transfusion or infusion | Valid |
| Y63.1 | Incorrect dilution of fluid used during infusion | Valid |
| Y63.2 | Overdose of radiation given during therapy | Valid |
| Y63.4 | Failure in dosage in electroshock or insulin-shock therapy | Valid |
| Y63.5 | Inappropriate temperature in local application and packing | Valid |
| Y63.6 | Underdosing and nonadministration of necessary drug, medicament or biological substance | Valid |
| Y63.8 | Failure in dosage during other surgical and medical care | Valid |
| Y63.9 | Failure in dosage during unspecified surgical and medical care | Valid |