ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 05 Upper Veins › 055 Upper Veins, Destruction › 055C0ZZ

055C0ZZ

Destruction of Left Basilic Vein, 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 Destruction of Left Basilic Vein, 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 Destruction

Physical eradication of all or a portion of a body part by the direct use of energy, force, or a destructive agent

None of the body part is physically taken out

For example

  • Fulguration of rectal polyp, cautery of skin lesion

4. Body Part Basilic Vein, Left

Also covers

  • Median antebrachial vein
  • Median cubital vein

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
05500ZZ Destruction of Azygos Vein, Open Approach Valid
05503ZZ Destruction of Azygos Vein, Percutaneous Approach Valid
05504ZZ Destruction of Azygos Vein, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
05510ZZ Destruction of Hemiazygos Vein, Open Approach Valid
05513ZZ Destruction of Hemiazygos Vein, Percutaneous Approach Valid
05514ZZ Destruction of Hemiazygos Vein, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
05530ZZ Destruction of Right Innominate Vein, Open Approach Valid
05533ZZ Destruction of Right Innominate Vein, Percutaneous Approach Valid
05534ZZ Destruction of Right Innominate Vein, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
05540ZZ Destruction of Left Innominate Vein, Open Approach Valid
05543ZZ Destruction of Left Innominate Vein, Percutaneous Approach Valid
05544ZZ Destruction of Left Innominate Vein, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid