ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0S Lower Joints › 0SP Lower Joints, Removal › 0SPC0JZ
Removal of Synthetic Substitute from Right Knee Joint, Open 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 Removal of Synthetic Substitute from Right Knee Joint, 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 Removal
Taking out or off a device from a body part
If a device is taken out and a similar device put in without cutting or puncturing the skin or mucous membrane, the procedure is coded to the root operation CHANGE. Otherwise, the procedure for taking out a device is coded to the root operation REMOVAL
For example
- Drainage tube removal, cardiac pacemaker removal
5. Approach Open
Cutting through the skin or mucous membrane and any other body layers necessary to expose 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 0SP000Z | Removal of Drainage Device from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0SP003Z | Removal of Infusion Device from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0SP004Z | Removal of Internal Fixation Device from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0SP007Z | Removal of Autologous Tissue Substitute from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0SP008Z | Removal of Spacer from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0SP00AZ | Removal of Interbody Fusion Device from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0SP00JZ | Removal of Synthetic Substitute from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0SP00KZ | Removal of Nonautologous Tissue Substitute from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0SP030Z | Removal of Drainage Device from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0SP033Z | Removal of Infusion Device from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0SP034Z | Removal of Internal Fixation Device from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0SP037Z | Removal of Autologous Tissue Substitute from Lumbar Vertebral Joint, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |