AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2017 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-PCS Procedure Codes

Occlusion/Ligation of Pulmonary Trunk & Right Pulmonary Artery

In code table 02L, Heart and Great Vessels, Occlusion, two body part values were added, to capture detail for embolization procedures performed on the pulmonary trunk and right pulmonary artery. Body PartP Pulmonary Trunk Q Pulmonary Artery, Right In many procedures for correction of congenital heart defects, native blood flow to the pulmonary arteries is cut off as an adjunctive measure because a newly created conduit, for example from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery, has now taken over the function of delivering blood to the pulmonary arteries. Depending on the specific defect, this may be accomplished by...

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