ICD-10-PCS › 0 Medical and Surgical › 0V Male Reproductive System › 0VN Male Reproductive System, Release › 0VN20ZZ

0VN20ZZ

Release Left Seminal Vesicle, Open Approach

ValidICD-10-PCS procedure code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Release Left Seminal Vesicle, 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 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 Open

Cutting through the skin or mucous membrane and any other body layers necessary to expose the site of the procedure

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
0VN00ZZ Release Prostate, Open Approach Valid
0VN03ZZ Release Prostate, Percutaneous Approach Valid
0VN04ZZ Release Prostate, Percutaneous Endoscopic 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
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