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E876.9 MEDICAL MISADVENTURE NOS


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: E876.9

Short Description: Medical misadventure NOS

Long Description: Unspecified misadventure during medical care

Code Classification:

  • External causes of injury (V)
    • Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care (E870-E876)
      • E876 Other and unspecified misadventures during medical care
        • E876.9 Medical misadventure NOS

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


Crosswalk Information

The code E876.9 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
E876.9 Right Arrow Y69 Unspecified misadventure during surgical and medical care
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
E876.0 Mismatched blood in transfusion
E876.1 Wrong fluid in infusion
E876.2 Failure in suture and ligature during surgical operation
E876.3 Endotracheal tube wrongly placed during anesthetic procedure
E876.4 Failure to introduce or to remove other tube or instrument
E876.5 Performance of wrong operation (procedure) on correct patient
E876.6 Performance of operation (procedure) on patient not scheduled for surgery
E876.7 Performance of correct operation (procedure) on wrong side/body part
E876.8 Other specified misadventures during medical care

This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014

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