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00KB0ZZ

Map Pons, Open Approach

ValidICD-10-PCS procedure code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2014 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Map Pons, Open Approach

What this code says

Each character is read in its own position, so the same letter means different things in different places. Definitions are CMS's own.

3. Root operation Map

Locating the route of passage of electrical impulses and/or locating functional areas in a body part

Applicable only to the cardiac conduction mechanism and the central nervous system

For example

  • Cardiac mapping, cortical mapping

4. Body Part Pons

Also covers

  • Apneustic center
  • Basis pontis
  • Locus ceruleus
  • Pneumotaxic center
  • Pontine tegmentum
  • Superior olivary nucleus

5. Approach Open

Cutting through the skin or mucous membrane and any other body layers necessary to expose the site of the procedure

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00K00ZZ Map Brain, Open Approach Valid
00K03ZZ Map Brain, Percutaneous Approach Valid
00K04ZZ Map Brain, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
00K0XZ1 Map Brain using Connectomic Analysis, External Approach Valid
00K70ZZ Map Cerebral Hemisphere, Open Approach Valid
00K73ZZ Map Cerebral Hemisphere, Percutaneous Approach Valid
00K74ZZ Map Cerebral Hemisphere, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
00K80ZZ Map Basal Ganglia, Open Approach Valid
00K83ZZ Map Basal Ganglia, Percutaneous Approach Valid
00K84ZZ Map Basal Ganglia, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
00K90ZZ Map Thalamus, Open Approach Valid
00K93ZZ Map Thalamus, Percutaneous Approach Valid