diff --git a/src/EditorFeatures/CSharpTest/EditAndContinue/RudeEditTopLevelTests.cs b/src/EditorFeatures/CSharpTest/EditAndContinue/RudeEditTopLevelTests.cs
index 0c10aebd9ba063bada7bf9165eec2a00d0d42590..b619b1b5a8b407ac875272177d6ad89edc25502c 100644
--- a/src/EditorFeatures/CSharpTest/EditAndContinue/RudeEditTopLevelTests.cs
+++ b/src/EditorFeatures/CSharpTest/EditAndContinue/RudeEditTopLevelTests.cs
@@ -6881,6 +6881,16 @@ class SampleCollection<T>
                 Diagnostic(RudeEditKind.Delete, "public T this[int i]", CSharpFeaturesResources.IndexerSetter));
         }
 
+        [Fact, WorkItem(1174850)]
+        public void Indexer_Insert()
+        {
+            var src1 = "struct C { }";
+            var src2 = "struct C { public int this[int x, int y] { get { return x + y; } } }";
+
+            var edits = GetTopEdits(src1, src2);
+            edits.VerifySemanticDiagnostics();
+        }
+
         [WorkItem(1120407)]
         [Fact]
         public void ConstField_Update()
diff --git a/src/Features/CSharp/EditAndContinue/CSharpEditAndContinueAnalyzer.cs b/src/Features/CSharp/EditAndContinue/CSharpEditAndContinueAnalyzer.cs
index 647350b692fc1353e1c56558f444ae19910294a0..9a31d465abfdd6e06e8b4cb6d7d48887c71a22a2 100644
--- a/src/Features/CSharp/EditAndContinue/CSharpEditAndContinueAnalyzer.cs
+++ b/src/Features/CSharp/EditAndContinue/CSharpEditAndContinueAnalyzer.cs
@@ -825,9 +825,10 @@ internal override SyntaxNode TryGetContainingTypeDeclaration(SyntaxNode memberDe
             return memberDeclaration.Parent.FirstAncestorOrSelf<TypeDeclarationSyntax>();
         }
 
-        internal override bool HasBackingField(SyntaxNode propertyDeclaration)
+        internal override bool HasBackingField(SyntaxNode propertyOrIndexerDeclaration)
         {
-            return SyntaxUtilities.HasBackingField((PropertyDeclarationSyntax)propertyDeclaration);
+            return propertyOrIndexerDeclaration.IsKind(SyntaxKind.PropertyDeclaration) && 
+                   SyntaxUtilities.HasBackingField((PropertyDeclarationSyntax)propertyOrIndexerDeclaration);
         }
 
         internal override bool IsDeclarationWithInitializer(SyntaxNode declaration)