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Root Operations for ICD-10 PCS Questions & Answers 0 - Alteration Modifying the natural anatomic structure of a body part without affecting the function of the body part. Purpose is to improve appearance Examples: Face lift, breast augmentation 1 - Bypass Altering the route of passage o...

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Root Operations for ICD-10 PCS
Questions & Answers
0 - Alteration - answer Modifying the natural anatomic structure of a body part
without affecting the function of the body part.
Purpose is to improve appearance
Examples: Face lift, breast augmentation

1 - Bypass - answer Altering the route of passage of the contents of a tubular body
part.
Examples: Coronary artery bypass, colostomy formation

2 - Change - answer Taking out of off a device from a body part and putting back an
identical or similar device in or on the same body part without cutting or puncturing the
skin or a mucous membrane.
All CHANGE procedures are coded used an EXTERNAL approach
Example: Urinary catheter change, gastrostomy tube change

3 - Control - answer Stopping or attempting to stop, postprocedural bleeding.
The site of the bleeding is coded as an anatomical region and not to a specific body site
Example: Control of post-prostatectomy hemorrhage, control of post-tonsillectomy
hemorrhage

4 - Creation - answer Making a new genital structure that does not take over the
function of a body part.
Used only for sex change operations

5 - Destruction - answer Physical eradication of all or a portion of a body part by the
direct use of energy, force, or a destructive agent.
None of the body part is physically taken out
Example: Fulguration of rectal polyp, cautery of skin lesion

6 - Detachment - answer Cutting off all or part of the upper or lower extremities.
The body part value is the site of the detachment, with a qualifier to further specify the
level where the extremity was detached.
Examples: Below knee amputation, disarticulation of shoulder

7 - Dilation - answer Expanding an orifice or the lumen of a tubular body part
The orifice can be natural or artifically created. Accomplished by stretching a tubular
body part using intraluminal pressure or by cutting part of the orifice or wall of the
tubular body part.
Examples: Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, pyloromyotomy

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