ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0V Male Reproductive System › 0VN Male Reproductive System, Release › 0VN04ZZ
Release Prostate, Percutaneous Endoscopic 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 Prostate, Percutaneous Endoscopic 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 Endoscopic
Entry, by puncture or minor incision, of instrumentation through the skin or mucous membrane and any other body layers necessary to reach and visualize the site of the procedure
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 0VN00ZZ | Release Prostate, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0VN03ZZ | Release Prostate, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0VN07ZZ | Release Prostate, Via Natural or Artificial Opening | Valid |
| 0VN08ZZ | Release Prostate, Via Natural or Artificial Opening Endoscopic | Valid |
| 0VN10ZZ | Release Right Seminal Vesicle, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0VN13ZZ | Release Right Seminal Vesicle, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0VN14ZZ | Release Right Seminal Vesicle, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach | Valid |
| 0VN20ZZ | Release Left Seminal Vesicle, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0VN23ZZ | Release Left Seminal Vesicle, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |
| 0VN24ZZ | Release Left Seminal Vesicle, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach | Valid |
| 0VN30ZZ | Release Bilateral Seminal Vesicles, Open Approach | Valid |
| 0VN33ZZ | Release Bilateral Seminal Vesicles, Percutaneous Approach | Valid |