ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0R Upper Joints › 0RN Upper Joints, Release › 0RNDXZZ

0RNDXZZ

Release Left Temporomandibular Joint, 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 Temporomandibular Joint, 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
0RN00ZZ Release Occipital-cervical Joint, Open Approach Valid
0RN03ZZ Release Occipital-cervical Joint, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0RN04ZZ Release Occipital-cervical Joint, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0RN0XZZ Release Occipital-cervical Joint, External Approach Valid
0RN10ZZ Release Cervical Vertebral Joint, Open Approach Valid
0RN13ZZ Release Cervical Vertebral Joint, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0RN14ZZ Release Cervical Vertebral Joint, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0RN1XZZ Release Cervical Vertebral Joint, External Approach Valid
0RN30ZZ Release Cervical Vertebral Disc, Open Approach Valid
0RN33ZZ Release Cervical Vertebral Disc, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0RN34ZZ Release Cervical Vertebral Disc, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0RN3XZZ Release Cervical Vertebral Disc, External Approach Valid