ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › Y70-Y82 › Y78 Radiological devices associated... › Y78.2
Prosthetic and other implants, materials and accessory radiological devices associated with adverse incidents
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 Prosthetic and other implants, materials and accessory radiological devices associated with adverse incidents
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 Y70-Y82 section Medical devices associated with adverse incidents in diagnostic and therapeutic use (Y70-Y82)
Excludes2 - not included here
- later complications following use of medical devices without breakdown or malfunctioning of device (Y83-Y84)
- misadventure to patients during surgical and medical care, classifiable to (Y62-Y69)
- surgical and other medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reaction of the patient, or of later complication, without mention of misadventure at the time of the procedure (Y83-Y84)
Includes
- breakdown or malfunction of medical devices (during use) (after implantation) (ongoing use)
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.
- Incident, adverse > device > radiological > accessory
- Incident, adverse > device > radiological > prosthetic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Y78.0 | Diagnostic and monitoring radiological devices associated with adverse incidents | Valid |
| Y78.1 | Therapeutic (nonsurgical) and rehabilitative radiological devices associated with adverse incidents | Valid |
| Y78.3 | Surgical instruments, materials and radiological devices (including sutures) associated with adverse incidents | Valid |
| Y78.8 | Miscellaneous radiological devices associated with adverse incidents, not elsewhere classified | Valid |