Version 2024
Billable Code

2024 ICD-10-CM Procedure Code 0NN53ZZ

Release Right Temporal Bone, Percutaneous Approach

ICD-10-PCS Code:
0NN53ZZ
ICD-10-PCS Code for:
Release Right Temporal Bone, Percutaneous Approach
Is Billable?
Yes - Valid for Submission
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0NN53ZZ is a billable procedure code used to specify the performance of release right temporal bone, percutaneous approach. The code is valid for the year 2024 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.

0NN53ZZ PCS Table

In an PCS table each code is represented by up seven alphanumeric characters, with each character in the table respresenting different aspects of the procedure. In the table provided below, each row represents an individual character and includes information about the character's position, designation, label, and procedure notes. For this PCS table the procedure code is in the medical and surgical section and is part of the head and facial bones body system, classified under release operation. The applicable bodypart for this procedure code is temporal bone, right.

Position Designation Character Label Procedures Notes
1 Section 0 Medical and Surgical
2 Body System N Head and Facial Bones
3 Operation N Release

Involves:
Freeing a body part from an abnormal physical constraint by cutting or by the use of force

Explanation:
Some of the restraining tissue may be taken out but none of the body part is taken out

Includes:
  • Adhesiolysis, carpal tunnel release
4 BodyPart 5 Temporal Bone, Right Includes:
  • Mastoid process
  • Petrous part of temoporal bone
  • Tympanic part of temoporal bone
  • Zygomatic process of temporal bone
5 Approach 3 Percutaneous

Involves:
Entry, by puncture or minor incision, of instrumentation through the skin or mucous membrane and any other body layers necessary to reach the site of the procedure

6 Device Z No Device

Explanation:
The value Z is used for the sixth character to indicate that a specific device does not apply to the procedure.

7 Qualifier Z No Qualifier

Explanation:
The value Z is used for the seventh character to indicate that a specific qualifier does not apply to the procedure.

Clinical Classification

Convert to ICD-9-PCS

The following crosswalk between ICD-10-PCS to ICD-9-PCS is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:

Other ICD-10-PCS Codes Used for Release Temporal Bone, Right

What is ICD-10-PCS?

The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a catalog of procedural codes used by medical professionals for hospital inpatient healthcare settings. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) maintain the catalog in the U.S. releasing yearly updates. The 2024 ICD-10-PCS codes are to be used for discharges occurring from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Each ICD-10-PCS code has a structure of seven alphanumeric characters and contains no decimals. The first character defines the major "section". Depending on the "section" the second through seventh characters mean different things.