ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0V Male Reproductive System › 0VL Male Reproductive System, Occlusion › 0VLH0CZ
Occlusion of Bilateral Spermatic Cords with Extraluminal Device, 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 Occlusion of Bilateral Spermatic Cords with Extraluminal Device, 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 Occlusion
Completely closing an orifice or the lumen of a tubular body part
The orifice can be a natural orifice or an artificially created orifice
For example
- Fallopian tube ligation, ligation of inferior vena cava
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 Extraluminal Device
For example
- AtriClip LAA Exclusion System
- LAP-BAND(R) adjustable gastric banding system
- REALIZE(R) Adjustable Gastric Band
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 0VLF0CZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord with Extraluminal Device, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0VLF0DZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord with Intraluminal Device, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0VLF0ZZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0VLF3CZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord with Extraluminal Device, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0VLF3DZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord with Intraluminal Device, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0VLF3ZZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0VLF4CZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord with Extraluminal Device, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach | Valid |
| 0VLF4DZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord with Intraluminal Device, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach | Valid |
| 0VLF4ZZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach | Valid |
| 0VLF8CZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord with Extraluminal Device, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Endoscopic | Valid |
| 0VLF8DZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord with Intraluminal Device, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Endoscopic | Valid |
| 0VLF8ZZ | Occlusion of Right Spermatic Cord, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Endoscopic | Valid |