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0NTT0ZZ

Resection of Right Mandible, Open 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 Resection of Right Mandible, 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 Resection

Cutting out or off, without replacement, all of a body part

For example

  • Total nephrectomy, total lobectomy of lung

5. Approach Open

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

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
0NT10ZZ Resection of Frontal Bone, Open Approach Valid
0NT20ZZ Resection of Left Frontal Bone, Open Approach Retired
0NT30ZZ Resection of Right Parietal Bone, Open Approach Valid
0NT40ZZ Resection of Left Parietal Bone, Open Approach Valid
0NT50ZZ Resection of Right Temporal Bone, Open Approach Valid
0NT60ZZ Resection of Left Temporal Bone, Open Approach Valid
0NT70ZZ Resection of Occipital Bone, Open Approach Valid
0NT80ZZ Resection of Left Occipital Bone, Open Approach Retired
0NTB0ZZ Resection of Nasal Bone, Open Approach Valid
0NTC0ZZ Resection of Sphenoid Bone, Open Approach Valid
0NTD0ZZ Resection of Left Sphenoid Bone, Open Approach Retired
0NTF0ZZ Resection of Right Ethmoid Bone, Open Approach Valid