ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0T Urinary System › 0TN Urinary System, Release › 0TN17ZZ
Release Left Kidney, Via Natural or Artificial Opening
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 Left Kidney, Via Natural or Artificial Opening
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
4. Body Part Kidney, Left
Also covers
- Renal calyx
- Renal capsule
- Renal cortex
- Renal segment
5. Approach Via Natural or Artificial Opening
Entry of instrumentation through a natural or artificial external opening to reach the site of the procedure
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 0TN00ZZ | Release Right Kidney, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0TN03ZZ | Release Right Kidney, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0TN04ZZ | Release Right Kidney, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach | Valid |
| 0TN07ZZ | Release Right Kidney, Via Natural or Artificial Opening | Valid |
| 0TN08ZZ | Release Right Kidney, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Endoscopic | Valid |
| 0TN10ZZ | Release Left Kidney, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0TN13ZZ | Release Left Kidney, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0TN14ZZ | Release Left Kidney, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach | Valid |
| 0TN18ZZ | Release Left Kidney, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Endoscopic | Valid |
| 0TN30ZZ | Release Right Kidney Pelvis, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0TN33ZZ | Release Right Kidney Pelvis, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0TN34ZZ | Release Right Kidney Pelvis, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach | Valid |