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0WUL0KZ

Supplement Lower Back with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, 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 Supplement Lower Back with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, 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 Supplement

Putting in or on biological or synthetic material that physically reinforces and/or augments the function of a portion of a body part

The biological material is non-living, or is living and from the same individual. The body part may have been previously replaced, and the Supplement procedure is performed to physically reinforce and/or augment the function of the replaced body part

For example

  • Herniorrhaphy using mesh, mitral valve ring annuloplasty, put a new acetabular liner in a previous hip replacement

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 Nonautologous Tissue Substitute

For example

  • Acellular Hydrated Dermis
  • Bone bank bone graft
  • Cook Biodesign(R) Fistula Plug(s)
  • Cook Biodesign(R) Hernia Graft(s)
  • Cook Biodesign(R) Layered Graft(s)
  • Cook Zenapro(tm) Layered Graft(s)
  • Fish skin
  • Kerecis(R) (GraftGuide) (MariGen) (SurgiBind) (SurgiClose)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
0WU007Z Supplement Head with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach Valid
0WU00JZ Supplement Head with Synthetic Substitute, Open Approach Valid
0WU00KZ Supplement Head with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach Valid
0WU047Z Supplement Head with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0WU04JZ Supplement Head with Synthetic Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0WU04KZ Supplement Head with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0WU207Z Supplement Face with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach Valid
0WU20JZ Supplement Face with Synthetic Substitute, Open Approach Valid
0WU20KZ Supplement Face with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Open Approach Valid
0WU247Z Supplement Face with Autologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0WU24JZ Supplement Face with Synthetic Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid
0WU24KZ Supplement Face with Nonautologous Tissue Substitute, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach Valid