ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0L Tendons › 0LN Tendons, Release › 0LNWXZZ

0LNWXZZ

Release Left Foot Tendon, External 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 Release Left Foot Tendon, 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

CodeDescriptionStatus
0LN00ZZ Release Head and Neck Tendon, Open Approach Valid
0LN03ZZ Release Head and Neck Tendon, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0LN04ZZ Release Head and Neck Tendon, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0LN0XZZ Release Head and Neck Tendon, External Approach Valid
0LN10ZZ Release Right Shoulder Tendon, Open Approach Valid
0LN13ZZ Release Right Shoulder Tendon, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0LN14ZZ Release Right Shoulder Tendon, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0LN1XZZ Release Right Shoulder Tendon, External Approach Valid
0LN20ZZ Release Left Shoulder Tendon, Open Approach Valid
0LN23ZZ Release Left Shoulder Tendon, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0LN24ZZ Release Left Shoulder Tendon, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0LN2XZZ Release Left Shoulder Tendon, External Approach Valid