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2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Y65.52

Performance of procedure (operation) on patient not scheduled for surgery

ICD-10-CM Code:
Y65.52
ICD-10 Code for:
Perform of proc (op) on patient not scheduled for surgery
Is Billable?
Yes - Valid for Submission
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Code Classification

  • External causes of morbidity and mortality
    (V01–Y99)
    • Complications of medical and surgical care
      (Y62-Y84)
      • Other misadventures during surgical and medical care
        (Y65)

Y65.52 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of performance of procedure (operation) on patient not scheduled for surgery. The code is valid during the current fiscal year for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions from October 01, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Approximate Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

  • Anesthetic procedure performed on the wrong patient
  • Surgery performed on the wrong patient

Clinical Classification

Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries

The following annotation back-references are applicable to this diagnosis code. The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10-CM codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with coding notes and guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more.


Inclusion Terms

Inclusion Terms
These terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
  • Performance of procedure (operation) intended for another patient
  • Performance of procedure (operation) on wrong patient

Index of External Cause of Injuries

References found for this diagnosis code in the External Cause of Injuries Index:

    • Inappropriate operation performed
      • operation intended for another patient done on wrong patient
    • Procedure(operation)
      • intended for another patient done on wrong patient
    • Procedure(operation)
      • performed on patient not scheduled for surgery
    • Procedure(operation)
      • performed on wrong patient
    • Wrong
      • patient, procedure performed on

Convert Y65.52 to ICD-9-CM

  • ICD-9-CM Code: E876.6 - Proc-pt not sched surg

Code History

  • FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
  • FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
  • FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
  • FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
  • FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
  • FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
  • FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
  • FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
  • FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.