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03710E6

Dilation of Left Internal Mammary Artery, Bifurcation, with Two Intraluminal Devices, Open Approach

RetiredICD-10-PCS procedure code.

No longer in the code set. Submitting it will not be accepted for a current date of service.

Billable FY2017 to FY2019. In the code set FY2017 to FY2019, and removed after that.

Use instead:

  • 03710EZ Dilation of Left Internal Mammary Artery with Two Intraluminal Devices, Open Approach stated for FY2019

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.

  1. FY2017 Added to the code set Dilation of Left Internal Mammary Artery, Bifurcation, with Two Intraluminal Devices, Open Approach
  2. FY2020 Removed from the code set

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 Dilation

Expanding an orifice or the lumen of a tubular body part

The orifice can be a natural orifice or an artificially created orifice. Accomplished by stretching a tubular body part using intraluminal pressure or by cutting part of the orifice or wall of the tubular body part

For example

  • Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, internal urethrotomy

4. Body Part Internal Mammary Artery, Left

Also covers

  • Anterior intercostal artery
  • Internal thoracic artery
  • Musculophrenic artery
  • Pericardiophrenic artery
  • Superior epigastric artery

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
0370046 Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery, Bifurcation, with Drug-eluting Intraluminal Device, Open Approach Retired
037004Z Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery with Drug-eluting Intraluminal Device, Open Approach Valid
0370056 Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery, Bifurcation, with Two Drug-eluting Intraluminal Devices, Open Approach Retired
037005Z Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery with Two Drug-eluting Intraluminal Devices, Open Approach Valid
0370066 Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery, Bifurcation, with Three Drug-eluting Intraluminal Devices, Open Approach Retired
037006Z Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery with Three Drug-eluting Intraluminal Devices, Open Approach Valid
0370076 Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery, Bifurcation, with Four or More Drug-eluting Intraluminal Devices, Open Approach Retired
037007Z Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery with Four or More Drug-eluting Intraluminal Devices, Open Approach Valid
03700D1 Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery with Intraluminal Device, using Drug-Coated Balloon, Open Approach Valid
03700D6 Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery, Bifurcation, with Intraluminal Device, Open Approach Retired
03700DZ Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery with Intraluminal Device, Open Approach Valid
03700E6 Dilation of Right Internal Mammary Artery, Bifurcation, with Two Intraluminal Devices, Open Approach Retired