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04RK07Z

Replacement of Right Femoral Artery with Autologous Tissue Substitute, 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 Replacement of Right Femoral Artery with Autologous Tissue Substitute, 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 Replacement

Putting in or on biological or synthetic material that physically takes the place and/or function of all or a portion of a body part

The body part may have been taken out or replaced, or may be taken out, physically eradicated, or rendered nonfunctional during the Replacement procedure. A Removal procedure is coded for taking out the device used in a previous replacement procedure

For example

  • Total hip replacement, bone graft, free skin graft

5. Approach Open

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

6. Device Autologous Tissue Substitute

For example

  • Autograft
  • Cultured epidermal cell autograft
  • Epicel(R) cultured epidermal autograft

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
04R007Z Replacement of Abdominal Aorta with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach Valid
04R00JZ Replacement of Abdominal Aorta with Synthetic Substitute, Open Approach Valid
04R00KZ Replacement of Abdominal Aorta with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach Valid
04R047Z Replacement of Abdominal Aorta with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
04R04JZ Replacement of Abdominal Aorta with Synthetic Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
04R04KZ Replacement of Abdominal Aorta with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
04R107Z Replacement of Celiac Artery with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach Valid
04R10JZ Replacement of Celiac Artery with Synthetic Substitute, Open Approach Valid
04R10KZ Replacement of Celiac Artery with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach Valid
04R147Z Replacement of Celiac Artery with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
04R14JZ Replacement of Celiac Artery with Synthetic Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
04R14KZ Replacement of Celiac Artery with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid