Y65: Other misadventures during surgical and medical care

Codes under Y65 (Other misadventures during surgical and medical care). A ✓ marks a billable (fully specified) code; category codes without a ✓ are not billable on their own.

Code	Description	Billable
Y65.0	Mismatched blood in transfusion	✓
Y65.1	Wrong fluid used in infusion	✓
Y65.2	Failure in suture or ligature during surgical operation	✓
Y65.3	Endotracheal tube wrongly placed during anesthetic procedure	✓
Y65.4	Failure to introduce or to remove other tube or instrument	✓
Y65.5	Performance of wrong procedure (operation)	—
Y65.8	Other specified misadventures during surgical and medical care	✓
Y65.51	Performance of wrong procedure (operation) on correct patient	✓
Y65.52	Performance of procedure (operation) on patient not scheduled for surgery	✓
Y65.53	Performance of correct procedure (operation) on wrong side or body part	✓

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