ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0H Skin and Breast › 0HN Skin and Breast, Release › 0HNLXZZ
Release Left Lower Leg Skin, External Approach
ValidICD-10-PCS procedure code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Release Left Lower Leg Skin, External 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 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 External
Procedures performed directly on the skin or mucous membrane and procedures performed indirectly by the application of external force through the skin or mucous membrane
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 0HN0XZZ | Release Scalp Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HN1XZZ | Release Face Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HN2XZZ | Release Right Ear Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HN3XZZ | Release Left Ear Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HN4XZZ | Release Neck Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HN5XZZ | Release Chest Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HN6XZZ | Release Back Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HN7XZZ | Release Abdomen Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HN8XZZ | Release Buttock Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HN9XZZ | Release Perineum Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HNAXZZ | Release Inguinal Skin, External Approach | Valid |
| 0HNBXZZ | Release Right Upper Arm Skin, External Approach | Valid |