Y62

The ICD-10-CM code for failure of steril precaut during surgical and medical care is Y62. The full clinical description is "Failure of sterile precautions during surgical and medical care". Y62 is a non-billable header code. Use a more specific child code for billing purposes.

ICD-10-CM code Y62 represents “Failure of sterile precautions during surgical and medical care”. It is classified under Chapter 21: External Causes of Morbidity and is a non-billable header code. Use a more specific child code for billing purposes.

No, Y62 is a non-billable header code. You need to use one of its more specific child codes for billing. There are 9 child codes under Y62.

Y62 is in Chapter 21: External Causes of Morbidity (codes V00-Y99).

Y62 has Excludes1 notes indicating codes that cannot be used together with it, including: 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).

Y62 has 9 child codes, including: Y62.0 (Failure of sterile precautions during surgical operation), Y62.1 (Failure of sterile precautions during infusn/transfusn), Y62.2 (Fail of steril precaut dur kidney dialysis and oth perfusion), Y62.3 (Failure of steril precaut during injection or immunization), and 5 more.

Y62 is linked to 1 UMLS Concept Unique Identifier: C0481240. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) integrates multiple biomedical vocabularies maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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Y62 maps to the ICD-11 code: PL11.4 (Failure of sterile precautions, as mode of injury or harm).