ICD-10-PCS Review the following scenarios and determine if you need multiple cod
ID: 245623 • Letter: I
Question
ICD-10-PCS
Review the following scenarios and determine if you need multiple codes or not. And for practice, you can include the codes if you like!
1. Patient needs a vein harvested from their leg to use for a heart bypass procedure, all complete during the same surgical session.
2. Patient has foot and lower leg amputated; the toes were amputated in a previous surgery.
3. Patient was schedule for a laparoscopic appendectomy, but a complication caused the surgery to be open.
4. Patient had an abdominal laparoscopy and some adhesions were removed.
Explanation / Answer
1. Z95.820 heart bypass with graft
2. Foot and leg amputation- Z89.512, previous toe amputation- Z89.429
3. Laparoscopic appendectomy- oDTJoZZ but open approach was performed- Z53.31
4. Laparoscopy- 54.21 with removal of adhesions- K66.0