ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y62-Y69 › Y65.5 Performance of wrong procedure (operation) › Y65.52
Performance of procedure (operation) on patient not scheduled for surgery
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 2010 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.
- FY2010 Added to the draft code set draft Performance of procedure (operation) on patient not scheduled for surgery
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)
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.
- Misadventure during surgical or medical care > inappropriate > operation performed
- Misadventure during surgical or medical care > performance of inappropriate operation
- Misadventure during surgical or medical care > specified type NEC > performance of inappropriate operation
- Procedure > performed on wrong patient
- Wrong > patient, procedure performed on
- Procedure > performed on patient not scheduled for surgery
- Procedure > intended for another patient done on wrong patient
- Inappropriate operation performed > operation intended for another patient done on wrong patient
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Y65.51 | Performance of wrong procedure (operation) on correct patient | Valid |
| Y65.53 | Performance of correct procedure (operation) on wrong side or body part | Valid |