ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0N Head and Facial Bones › 0NU Head and Facial Bones, Supplement › 0NU04JZ
Supplement Skull with Synthetic Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic 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 Supplement Skull with Synthetic Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic 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 Supplement
Putting in or on biological or synthetic material that physically reinforces and/or augments the function of a portion of a body part
The biological material is non-living, or is living and from the same individual. The body part may have been previously replaced, and the Supplement procedure is performed to physically reinforce and/or augment the function of the replaced body part
For example
- Herniorrhaphy using mesh, mitral valve ring annuloplasty, put a new acetabular liner in a previous hip replacement
5. Approach Percutaneous Endoscopic
Entry, by puncture or minor incision, of instrumentation through the skin or mucous membrane and any other body layers necessary to reach and visualize the site of the procedure
6. Device Synthetic Substitute
For example
- AbioCor(R) Total Replacement Heart
- AMPLATZER(R) Muscular VSD Occluder
- Annuloplasty ring
- Bard(R) Composix(R) (E/X)(LP) mesh
- Bard(R) Composix(R) Kugel(R) patch
- Bard(R) Dulex(tm) mesh
- Bard(R) Ventralex(tm) hernia patch
- Barricaid(R) Annular Closure Device (ACD)
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 0NU007Z | Supplement Skull with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0NU00JZ | Supplement Skull with Synthetic Substitute, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0NU00KZ | Supplement Skull with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0NU037Z | Supplement Skull with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0NU03JZ | Supplement Skull with Synthetic Substitute, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0NU03KZ | Supplement Skull with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0NU047Z | Supplement Skull with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach | Valid |
| 0NU04KZ | Supplement Skull with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach | Valid |
| 0NU107Z | Supplement Frontal Bone with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0NU10JZ | Supplement Frontal Bone with Synthetic Substitute, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0NU10KZ | Supplement Frontal Bone with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0NU137Z | Supplement Frontal Bone with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |