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06734DZ

Dilation of Esophageal Vein with Intraluminal Device, Percutaneous Endoscopic 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 Dilation of Esophageal Vein with Intraluminal Device, Percutaneous Endoscopic 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 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

5. Approach Percutaneous Endoscopic

Entry, by puncture or minor incision, of instrumentation through the skin or mucous membrane and any other body layers necessary to reach and visualize the site of the procedure

6. Device Intraluminal Device

For example

  • Absolute Pro Vascular (OTW) Self-Expanding Stent System
  • Acculink (RX) Carotid Stent System
  • AFX(R) Endovascular AAA System
  • AneuRx(R) AAA Advantage(R)
  • Assurant (Cobalt) stent
  • Carotid WALLSTENT(R) Monorail(R) Endoprosthesis
  • CoAxia NeuroFlo catheter
  • Colonic Z-Stent(R)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
06700DZ Dilation of Inferior Vena Cava with Intraluminal Device, Open Approach Valid
06700ZZ Dilation of Inferior Vena Cava, Open Approach Valid
06703DZ Dilation of Inferior Vena Cava with Intraluminal Device, Percutaneous Approach Valid
06703ZZ Dilation of Inferior Vena Cava, Percutaneous Approach Valid
06704DZ Dilation of Inferior Vena Cava with Intraluminal Device, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
06704ZZ Dilation of Inferior Vena Cava, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
06710DZ Dilation of Splenic Vein with Intraluminal Device, Open Approach Valid
06710ZZ Dilation of Splenic Vein, Open Approach Valid
06713DZ Dilation of Splenic Vein with Intraluminal Device, Percutaneous Approach Valid
06713ZZ Dilation of Splenic Vein, Percutaneous Approach Valid
06714DZ Dilation of Splenic Vein with Intraluminal Device, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
06714ZZ Dilation of Splenic Vein, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid