ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0H Skin and Breast › 0HN Skin and Breast, Release › 0HNVXZZ

0HNVXZZ

Release Bilateral Breast, External Approach

RetiredICD-10-PCS procedure code.

No longer in the code set. Submitting it will not be accepted for a current date of service.

Billable FY2016 to FY2019. In the code set FY2016 to FY2019, and removed after that.

Use instead:

  • 0HN5XZZ Release Chest Skin, External Approach stated for FY2019

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 Bilateral Breast, External Approach
  2. FY2020 Removed from the code set

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

4. Body Part Breast, Bilateral

Also covers

  • Mammary duct
  • Mammary gland

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

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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