ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 01 Peripheral Nervous System › 01N Peripheral Nervous System, Release › 01N00ZZ

01N00ZZ

Release Cervical Plexus, 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 Release Cervical Plexus, 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 Release

Freeing a body part from an abnormal physical constraint by cutting or by the use of force

Some of the restraining tissue may be taken out but none of the body part is taken out

For example

  • Adhesiolysis, carpal tunnel release

4. Body Part Cervical Plexus

Also covers

  • Ansa cervicalis
  • Cutaneous (transverse) cervical nerve
  • Great auricular nerve
  • Lesser occipital nerve
  • Supraclavicular nerve
  • Transverse (cutaneous) cervical nerve

5. Approach Open

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

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
01N03ZZ Release Cervical Plexus, Percutaneous Approach Valid
01N04ZZ Release Cervical Plexus, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
01N10ZZ Release Cervical Nerve, Open Approach Valid
01N13ZZ Release Cervical Nerve, Percutaneous Approach Valid
01N14ZZ Release Cervical Nerve, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
01N20ZZ Release Phrenic Nerve, Open Approach Valid
01N23ZZ Release Phrenic Nerve, Percutaneous Approach Valid
01N24ZZ Release Phrenic Nerve, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
01N30ZZ Release Brachial Plexus, Open Approach Valid
01N33ZZ Release Brachial Plexus, Percutaneous Approach Valid
01N34ZZ Release Brachial Plexus, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
01N40ZZ Release Ulnar Nerve, Open Approach Valid