Failure in dosage during surgical and medical care (Y63)
The ICD-10 code Y63 series identifies various types of dosage failures occurring during surgical and medical care. These codes are essential for documenting specific incidents such as giving too much or too little of a fluid, radiation, or medication, helping ensure precise clinical and billing records.
Codes like Y63.0 cover errors such as an excessive amount of blood or fluids given during transfusions or infusions, while Y63.1 refers to incorrect fluid dilution during infusion. Radiation treatment errors are categorized under Y63.2 for overdoses and Y63.3 for inadvertent patient exposure. Treatment dosage errors in therapies like electroshock or insulin-shock appear under Y63.4. Local application issues, such as inappropriate temperature during packing, use Y63.5. Underdosing or failure to administer necessary drugs falls under Y63.6. Broader dosage failures in surgical and medical care, including excessive doses of vaccines or biological substances, are captured by Y63.8. When the specific nature of the dosage failure is unclear, Y63.9 is applied, which includes errors like wrong dose of medication or prescription mistakes. These codes serve medical coding teams and healthcare professionals in accurately identifying and reporting dosage-related complications.
External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01–Y99)
Complications of medical and surgical care (Y62-Y84)
Y63 Failure in dosage during surgical and medical care
- Y63.0 Excessive amount of blood or other fluid given during transfusion or infusion
- Y63.1 Incorrect dilution of fluid used during infusion
- Y63.2 Overdose of radiation given during therapy
- Y63.3 Inadvertent exposure of patient to radiation during medical care
- Y63.4 Failure in dosage in electroshock or insulin-shock therapy
- Y63.5 Inappropriate temperature in local application and packing
- Y63.6 Underdosing and nonadministration of necessary drug, medicament or biological substance
- Y63.8 Failure in dosage during other surgical and medical care
- Y63.9 Failure in dosage during unspecified surgical and medical care
Failure in dosage during surgical and medical care (Y63)
Instructional Notations
Type 2 Excludes
A type 2 excludes note represents "Not included here". An excludes2 note indicates that the condition excluded is not part of the condition represented by the code, but a patient may have both conditions at the same time. When an Excludes2 note appears under a code, it is acceptable to use both the code and the excluded code together, when appropriate.
