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C21GYZZ

Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Myocardium using Other Radionuclide

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 Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Myocardium using Other Radionuclide

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 Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging

Introduction of radioactive materials into the body for single plane display of images developed from the capture of radioactive emissions

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
C2161ZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Right and Left Heart using Technetium 99m (Tc-99m) Valid
C216YZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Right and Left Heart using Other Radionuclide Valid
C21G1ZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Myocardium using Technetium 99m (Tc-99m) Valid
C21GDZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Myocardium using Indium 111 (In-111) Valid
C21GSZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Myocardium using Thallium 201 (Tl-201) Valid
C21GZZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Myocardium Valid
C21YYZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Heart using Other Radionuclide Valid