ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0F Hepatobiliary System and Pancreas › 0FN Hepatobiliary System and Pancreas, Release › 0FN97ZZ

0FN97ZZ

Release Common Bile Duct, Via Natural or Artificial Opening

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 Release Common Bile Duct, Via Natural or Artificial Opening

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 Release

Freeing a body part from an abnormal physical constraint by cutting or by the use of force

Some of the restraining tissue may be taken out but none of the body part is taken out

For example

  • Adhesiolysis, carpal tunnel release

5. Approach Via Natural or Artificial Opening

Entry of instrumentation through a natural or artificial external opening to reach the site of the procedure

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
0FN00ZZ Release Liver, Open Approach Valid
0FN03ZZ Release Liver, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0FN04ZZ Release Liver, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0FN10ZZ Release Right Lobe Liver, Open Approach Valid
0FN13ZZ Release Right Lobe Liver, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0FN14ZZ Release Right Lobe Liver, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0FN20ZZ Release Left Lobe Liver, Open Approach Valid
0FN23ZZ Release Left Lobe Liver, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0FN24ZZ Release Left Lobe Liver, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0FN40ZZ Release Gallbladder, Open Approach Valid
0FN43ZZ Release Gallbladder, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0FN44ZZ Release Gallbladder, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid