Y62-Y69 — Complications of medical and surgical care
Every ICD-10-CM code in this range and the PDGM clinical group CMS assigns to it, read from the CMS grouper crosswalk v07.1.26.
Codes in range
33
No clinical group
33
A period cannot be grouped from these.
Barred as primary
0
CMS rejects these in the primary position.
Where these codes group
None of the 33 codes in Y62-Y69 is assigned a PDGM clinical group. A 30-day period cannot be grouped from any of them, so none can hold the primary position on a home health claim.
Every code in Y62-Y69
Descriptions are CMS’s own, abbreviated as CMS abbreviates them.
| Code | Description | Clinical group | Primary position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Y620 | Failure of sterile precautions during surgical operation | None | Cannot group |
| Y621 | Failure of sterile precautions during infusn/transfusn | None | Cannot group |
| Y622 | Fail of steril precaut dur kidney dialysis and oth perfusion | None | Cannot group |
| Y623 | Failure of steril precaut during injection or immunization | None | Cannot group |
| Y624 | Failure of sterile precautions during endoscopic examination | None | Cannot group |
| Y625 | Failure of sterile precautions during heart catheterization | None | Cannot group |
| Y626 | Failure of steril precaut during aspirat, pnctr and oth cath | None | Cannot group |
| Y628 | Failure of steril precaut during oth surg and medical care | None | Cannot group |
| Y629 | Failure of steril precaut during unsp surg and medical care | None | Cannot group |
| Y630 | Excess amount of bld or oth fluid given dur tranfs or infusn | None | Cannot group |
| Y631 | Incorrect dilution of fluid used during infusion | None | Cannot group |
| Y632 | Overdose of radiation given during therapy | None | Cannot group |
| Y633 | Inadvertent expsr of patient to radiation during med care | None | Cannot group |
| Y634 | Failure in dosage in electroshock or insulin-shock therapy | None | Cannot group |
| Y635 | Inappropriate temperature in local application and packing | None | Cannot group |
| Y636 | Undrdose & nonadmin of necess drug, medicament or biolg sub | None | Cannot group |
| Y638 | Failure in dosage during other surgical and medical care | None | Cannot group |
| Y639 | Failure in dosage during unsp surgical and medical care | None | Cannot group |
| Y640 | Contaminated med/biolog sub, transfused or infused | None | Cannot group |
| Y641 | Contaminated med/biolog sub, injected or used for immuniz | None | Cannot group |
| Y648 | Contaminated med/biolog sub administered by oth means | None | Cannot group |
| Y649 | Contaminated med/biolog sub administered by unsp means | None | Cannot group |
| Y650 | Mismatched blood in transfusion | None | Cannot group |
| Y651 | Wrong fluid used in infusion | None | Cannot group |
| Y652 | Failure in suture or ligature during surgical operation | None | Cannot group |
| Y653 | Endotracheal tube wrongly placed during anesthetic procedure | None | Cannot group |
| Y654 | Failure to introduce or to remove other tube or instrument | None | Cannot group |
| Y6551 | Performance of wrong procedure (op) on correct patient | None | Cannot group |
| Y6552 | Perform of proc (op) on patient not scheduled for surgery | None | Cannot group |
| Y6553 | Perform of correct procedure (op) on wrong side or body part | None | Cannot group |
| Y658 | Oth misadventures during surgical and medical care | None | Cannot group |
| Y66 | Nonadministration of surgical and medical care | None | Cannot group |
| Y69 | Unspecified misadventure during surgical and medical care | None | Cannot group |
Source: CMS HH PPS Grouper Software v07.1.26, effective 2026-04-01. This is the crosswalk Medicare runs a claim through. Grouping also depends on admission source, timing, the OASIS functional items and the rest of the diagnosis list.
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