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CH1

Nuclear Medicine, Skin, Subcutaneous Tissue and Breast, Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging

Not billableICD-10-PCS procedure code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 10 more specific codes instead:

  • CH101ZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Right Breast using Technetium 99m (Tc-99m)
  • CH10SZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Right Breast using Thallium 201 (Tl-201)
  • CH10YZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Right Breast using Other Radionuclide
  • CH111ZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Left Breast using Technetium 99m (Tc-99m)
  • CH11SZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Left Breast using Thallium 201 (Tl-201)
  • CH11YZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Left Breast using Other Radionuclide
  • CH121ZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Bilateral Breasts using Technetium 99m (Tc-99m)
  • CH12SZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Bilateral Breasts using Thallium 201 (Tl-201)
  • CH12YZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Bilateral Breasts using Other Radionuclide
  • CH1YYZZ Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Skin, Subcutaneous Tissue and Breast using Other Radionuclide

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 Nuclear Medicine, Skin, Subcutaneous Tissue and Breast, Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging