ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 09 Ear, Nose, Sinus › 097 Ear, Nose, Sinus, Dilation › 097G3ZZ

097G3ZZ

Dilation of Left Eustachian Tube, Percutaneous 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 Left Eustachian Tube, Percutaneous 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

4. Body Part Eustachian Tube, Left

Also covers

  • Auditory tube
  • Pharyngotympanic tube

5. Approach Percutaneous

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

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
097F0DZ Dilation of Right Eustachian Tube with Intraluminal Device, Open Approach Valid
097F0ZZ Dilation of Right Eustachian Tube, Open Approach Valid
097F3ZZ Dilation of Right Eustachian Tube, Percutaneous Approach Valid
097F4ZZ Dilation of Right Eustachian Tube, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
097F7DZ Dilation of Right Eustachian Tube with Intraluminal Device, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Valid
097F7ZZ Dilation of Right Eustachian Tube, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Valid
097F8DZ Dilation of Right Eustachian Tube with Intraluminal Device, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Endoscopic Valid
097F8ZZ Dilation of Right Eustachian Tube, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Endoscopic Valid
097G0DZ Dilation of Left Eustachian Tube with Intraluminal Device, Open Approach Valid
097G0ZZ Dilation of Left Eustachian Tube, Open Approach Valid
097G4ZZ Dilation of Left Eustachian Tube, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
097G7DZ Dilation of Left Eustachian Tube with Intraluminal Device, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Valid