ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0R Upper Joints › 0RN Upper Joints, Release › 0RNW3ZZ
Release Right Finger Phalangeal Joint, Percutaneous 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 Release Right Finger Phalangeal Joint, Percutaneous 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 Percutaneous
Entry, by puncture or minor incision, of instrumentation through the skin or mucous membrane and any other body layers necessary to reach the site of the procedure
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |