ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0H Skin and Breast › 0H5 Skin and Breast, Destruction › 0H5V0Z3

0H5V0Z3

Destruction of Bilateral Breast using Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy, Open Approach

ValidICD-10-PCS procedure code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2023 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2023 to now.

  1. FY2023 Added to the code set Destruction of Bilateral Breast using Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy, 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 Breast, Bilateral

Also covers

  • Mammary duct
  • Mammary gland

5. Approach Open

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

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0H50XZD Destruction of Scalp Skin, Multiple, External Approach Valid
0H50XZZ Destruction of Scalp Skin, External Approach Valid
0H51XZD Destruction of Face Skin, Multiple, External Approach Valid
0H51XZZ Destruction of Face Skin, External Approach Valid
0H52XZD Destruction of Right Ear Skin, Multiple, External Approach Valid
0H52XZZ Destruction of Right Ear Skin, External Approach Valid
0H53XZD Destruction of Left Ear Skin, Multiple, External Approach Valid
0H53XZZ Destruction of Left Ear Skin, External Approach Valid
0H54XZD Destruction of Neck Skin, Multiple, External Approach Valid
0H54XZZ Destruction of Neck Skin, External Approach Valid
0H55XZD Destruction of Chest Skin, Multiple, External Approach Valid
0H55XZZ Destruction of Chest Skin, External Approach Valid